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Nail Your Request for Donations During Economic Ups, Downs, and Crisis Times

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

It takes commitment, guts, and a great story. As long as you’re giving donors a great experience ( thanking them well , communicating consistently, telling heartwarming stories, etc.), Communicate urgency, give short deadlines, and explain all all of the Ws to create a powerful story. More about that in a minute.

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Donation Time Money Gift

40+ Ideas to Light a Fundraising Fire Under Your Nonprofit Board Members

Blue Fox

OCTOBER 1, 2021

40+ Ways Empower Your Board Members for Fundraising Season Inform Hold a fundraising season kick-off dinner Give board members the option to give rather than fundraise Share 2021 Giving Tuesday Stats Stay in touch on fundraising goals and progress Share: How Nonprofits Build Donor Trust – Be Transparent Train on new fundraising software (like (..)

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Ideas Fundraising Script Nonprofit

It?s Never too Early to Start Your Annual Campaign

NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

You have to collect stories and photos of program participants, get their consent, pull data on your programs, clean up your donor database, plan events, schedule donor meetings, print materials, fix your mail merge and lick a thousand envelopes ? What is the story you want to tell for 2020? What story will the press want to hear?

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How To Cultivate Community Affinity Throughout The Generosity Journey

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7 Ways to Integrate Stories into Your Nonprofit’s Donor Stewardship Strategy

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2014

While most major gifts folks would probably tell you that nothing could replace the value of an in-person visit or phone call, the real magic of those activities comes for the opportunity to tell the donor a story. A story about a need, a story about someone who has been helped, etc. Start a thank you letter with a story.

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Relationships That Raise Funds: 5 Tips for Creating Successful Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers

NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). Ask for, and share, stories of involvement and success.

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44 Ways to Turn Your Supporters into Fundraising Superstars

NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Register for our Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Newsletter. Supply sample fundraising emails, Facebook posts, tweets, phone scripts, thank you notes, approved logos, etc. Provide fundraising success stories. Make your default “My Story” compelling on fundraising pages. Not all fundraisers will change the “My Story” area.

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Ideas You Can Use To Thank Donors During the Holidays

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

That means thanking them well, giving them updates, and telling them stories about the work your nonprofit is doing in changing lives. Recent print collateral, such as a newsletter or annual report. It helps to provide the people making calls with a script. A tiny, inexpensive gift, such as a bookmark, sticker, or magnet.

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Winning at NTC: Nonprofit Marketing and Digital Strategy

Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2014

myself and my colleagues got to hear your stories. pushing the boundaries of what health IT can be and do; and hundreds upon hundreds more stories! What was once a fairly straightforward field (writing letters of appeal, drafting a newsletter) is now in a tech renaissance. reviewing email and e-newsletter metrics.

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NTC Marketing Digital Strategy

How to Build Your Capital Campaign Plan

CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

If they have indicated they prefer to be contacted by phone rather than email, make sure you call them. Focus on their impact and show that impact through stories. It should help highlight the impact of the project, and connect that impact to personal stories. You want to build the relationship first, then ask for a donation.

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7 ways to say thanks

Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2011

I recently read this story about Gail, a donor who has been giving consistently for over 30 years to the same organizations and has never had her cumulative gifts recognized. Give each board member a handful of phone numbers to call and a thank you script if you like. I prefer the phone call approach. Share it with us!

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Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Podcasting is a storytelling medium; use it as the voice for your organization’s most compelling stories. To host remote guests, use a SkypeOut connection to call a phone line and Pamela or HotRecorder to record the audio. Tags: corey pudhorodsky NPTech NTEN Newsletter podcasting social media. Tools and Resources.

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Top 10 Ways To Keep Nonprofit Donors

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

Phone Call This is your secret weapon, perhaps the most under-utilized ways of thanking donors, and probably the method that has the most lasting impact. TIP: Ask donors for their phone numbers on your response devices and donation pages, and use them! If you’re doubtful, test this. If you do it, you’ll really stand out.

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[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Because what you’re sending out in social media, newsletters, when you’re doing these Zoom presentations and making virtual ask, all of this ties back to your mission, your vision, and your values. I have an organization that they don’t even like sending newsletters. And I want to show you how. Switch the context.

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Donor Appreciation: Creating a Strategy (And 22+ Ideas!)

Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Follow Up Phone Call. Create a script that your development team can follow during these follow-up conversations with your new supporters. Customize these scripts based on the segments of supporters who are being called. Be sure to check with them first before highlighting their story for the world to see.

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Ideas Donor Strategy Create

Donor Appreciation: Creating a Strategy (And 22+ Ideas!)

Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Follow Up Phone Call. Create a script that your development team can follow during these follow-up conversations with your new supporters. Customize these scripts based on the segments of supporters who are being called. Be sure to check with them first before highlighting their story for the world to see.

Ideas

Ideas Donor Strategy Create

[VIDEO] The Early Bird Guide to Epic End of Year Fundraising

Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

Pick up the phone and ask. But picking up the phone to steward and thank donors, picking up the phone to solicit donors during end-of-year, very inexpensive affordable way to boost your end-of-year fundraising. If you do that, I recommend giving them a script to make it super easy. ” I love it. Nancy, way to go. .

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Nail Your Request for Donations During Economic Ups, Downs, and Crisis Times

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It?s Never too Early to Start Your Annual Campaign

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7 Ways to Integrate Stories into Your Nonprofit’s Donor Stewardship Strategy

Relationships That Raise Funds: 5 Tips for Creating Successful Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers

44 Ways to Turn Your Supporters into Fundraising Superstars

Ideas You Can Use To Thank Donors During the Holidays

Winning at NTC: Nonprofit Marketing and Digital Strategy

How to Build Your Capital Campaign Plan

7 ways to say thanks

Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

Top 10 Ways To Keep Nonprofit Donors

[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Donor Appreciation: Creating a Strategy (And 22+ Ideas!)

Donor Appreciation: Creating a Strategy (And 22+ Ideas!)

[VIDEO] The Early Bird Guide to Epic End of Year Fundraising

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