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4 Steps to Making Planned Giving More Effective Than Ever, Right Now

Connection Cafe

In a recent survey we ran of planned and major giving professionals on March 24, 44% said they were already increasing their digital fundraising. Only a week later, a survey of the same population showed that 60% were moving to more digital fundraising — a massive shift for a normally slow-moving sector. can get involved.”

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How To Create Explainer Videos That Donors Will Love

Nonprofits Source

They can be the first thing a person sees about your nonprofit; allowing its voice and message to come through with unique combinations of visual styles, music, and narrative. For that, you can use meaningful animation, unexpected script turns ( narrative ), and adequate characterization. Always aim for the highest possible quality.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the script, before jumping into the how-to of widgets, the screencast will give some context, of course. so I go search for some music for the soundtrack.). The examples so far: Audience Feedback/Organizational Listening - Message/Comments - as seen on Life Kludger - A survey/Poll as seen on the Bamboo Project.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the presentation, I showed folks how to easily survey the audience using google forms. Be prepared to improvise more and drop the script if it isn't working with the audience. Learning the tools is like learning a music instrument, start slowly and work up speed and practice.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So here is my current survey of the landscape. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So here is my current survey of the landscape. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months.

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Top 10 Ways To Keep Nonprofit Donors

Bloomerang

TIP: Learn: (1) Who to call; (2) Who should make the call; (3) When to call; (4) How to call; (5) What to say, and (6) Next steps by heading over to Clairification and grabbing my free “ Donor Thank You Calls E-Book + Script.” You can even add music. Canva , Animoto , Vimeo ) to edit them into a quick slideshow.

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