Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

There are many reasons why a nonprofit professional would want to start a nonprofit podcast. Or, you could co-host with another nonprofit professional. Do a few tongue twisters or practice reading parts of your script to warm up your vocal cords. People tend to rush through their scripts when they’re feeling nervous.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2024

Elevate Your Impact: Crafting a Winning Fundraising Plan for Your Next Charity Event As a nonprofit professional, you understand the importance of effective fundraising. Review the event night timeline and script in detail at your program rehearsal. But where do you begin? Remember, a successful fundraising plan is a dynamic document.

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Charity Fundraising Literacy Photography 40

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2022

For example, if your logo typeface is a script, you’ll want to select a san-serif typeface that works well as body copy. If your logo has just one typeface, you will want to find another type family that both pairs nicely with your logo typeface and can fill a gap that your logo typeface isn’t able to accomplish.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

You might want to hire a professional and create a more expensive video down the road for your website, but to start, you can speak to your audience with honesty and clarity and get your point across with the camera you already have. For a longer video, consider writing a script. “We don’t have the budget for videos.”

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Video Giving Fundraising Script 98

AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2021

Consider writing up a script and asking someone to proofread the script to make sure that you are producing high-quality content. . Write a script so that speakers have talking points during the live video. . Nothing is worse than posting content that you regret later.

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Stream Audio Script Virtual 88

Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 21, 2022

Responsibilities include creating test plans and strategy, and test cases in partnership with declarative specialists, developers and project managers. This is an incredible opportunity to grow professionally and implement best practices, programs and processes to build the Quality Assurance function.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2022

Having a professional, uncluttered background. . Doing so will help your team come across as professional and make for a better video calling experience. . Scripts and templates. With the right best practices, video conferencing can allow your team to forge personal connections with supporters, no matter how remote.

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Advocacy Awareness Virtual Campaign 77

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Each year, we celebrate Pro Bono Week: a time to recognize professionals around the world who volunteer their skills for causes they care about. These professionals give their time, talent, and passion to help close the gap between the social impact created by the community today, and the potential for impact in the future.

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Education Collaboration Open Source Module 73

NetWits

JUNE 22, 2011

Register for our Event Fundraising Newsletter to receive monthly content and resources specifically for event fundraising professionals. But getting more people to register and attend your event is harder than it looks (I know all you seasoned event fundraising professionals are shaking your heads in agreement right now). Join Today.

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Causes Sample Script Support 202

Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

Check out these scripts for requesting donations from first-time donors and from recurring donors: Donation Request Script for First-Time Donors. Donation Request Script for Recurring Donors. Asking for donations in person creates closer and more meaningful connections between nonprofit professionals, donors, and prospects.

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Personal Donation Tips Script 105

AccelEvents

JANUARY 23, 2022

Should you shoot video ahead of time or let speakers potentially go off-script with live video? Would you manage your speakers yourself or hire a professional video production company? No worries about a speaker going “off script” or worse – not showing up at all. . How do you get the video assets or live-streaming deployed?

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Indeed, there have been a host of scandals affecting WordPress plugins, not the least of which was the problem with a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that affected dozens of the programs and allowed hackers to gain access to sites through bypassing owner-controlled security protocols.

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WordPress Site Plugin Script 100

Byte Technology

JULY 21, 2016

It’s great to have a stellar and attractive website, one that was professionally designed to utilize the most current design trends with state-of-the-art plugins and all the accompanying bells and whistles. All search engines—Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask.com etc.—use

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Websites Plugin Script Yahoo 100

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2021

Plus, as a special bonus item, you’ll receive Joe Garecht’s exclusive Asking Scripts Guide. Joe Garecht is the President of Garecht Fundraising Associates and has been a professional fundraiser for over 20 years. Bonus Item! This e-guide includes sample fundraising asks, sample major donor funding proposals, and more.

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Program Build Donor Module 80

The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

Many of the most respected professionals run their own blogs to shed light on best practices, challenge the status quo, and even offer humor to help folks fundraise smarter. One of our favorite posts is about data hygiene (which can easily be a snooze to read about), but they take on the subject by creating a script for an old-school PSA.

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Bookmarking Storytelling Nonprofit Social Media 98

Byte Technology

MAY 31, 2016

Using a combination of their free services—Google Spreadsheets, Google Docs and Google Scripts—you can actually construct your own uptime monitoring page to track any number of websites. Of course it should come as no great surprise that Internet giant Google has some great solutions for uptime website monitoring.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 13, 2021

Consider writing up a script and asking someone to proofread the script to make sure that you are producing high-quality content. . Write a script so that speakers have talking points during the live video. . Nothing is worse than posting content that you regret later.

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Stream Audio Script Virtual 52

Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

As development professionals, many of us see signs of an inequitable recovery in our daily work. Start by creating sample scripts for thank-you calls, emails, and cards and ask your team to thank your major donors. Instead, such events have intensified race, health, and wealth disparities. Keep growing.

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Gift Program United States Script 105

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And you don’t need to be a professional writer to craft them. . Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you need to have high-resolution professional quality photos or professionally edited videos. If you are producing a video (rather than just filming things onsite), prepare an engaging script or captions.

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Storytelling Fund Raise Music 139

Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. You can learn how to make this call by grabbing my free Thank You Calls E-Book + Script. Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun. Don’t ask for an upgrade at this point.

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Action Strategy Donor Calendar 140

Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

The best facilitators are professional, intentional, and practical, but that doesn’t mean they are dull. They don’t follow a script. They’re enthusiastic, inspirational, and an exceptional communicator. No one wants to listen to a stoic facilitator pontificate behind a lectern reading lame PowerPoint slides.

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Facilitation Exercise Fun PowerPoint 98

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

For example, you’ll need to set up your lighting and music, design the layout of your event space, script your program, and more. This can be difficult for nonprofit professionals who are not experienced with event planning. Especially if your event is on the larger side, you’ll have many logistics to contend with.

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Virtual Evaluation Personal Hosting 52

DipJar

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

An effective advocacy initiative can result in a series of successful, sustainable campaigns , helping your nonprofit appear both effective and professional to supporters, all while making a difference in the world. Script-branching. Canvassing Software. Real-time reporting.

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Advocacy Causes Campaign Tools 52

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Professional References/Testimonials (others who can speak on the organization’s behalf). You can find Robinson's scripts used in this analysis here. Provide the following information about the organization and staff. Where contact information is requested, provide (if applicable) Name, Title, Address, Email Address, Phone Number.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Automating donor touchpoints, such as pre-scripted acknowledgment letters and prompts for birthday notifications, takes some of the pressure off a fundraiser’s day-to-day so they can focus on one-to-one interaction with high-value donors and personalized communications with major prospects and supporters. Not sure if it’s right for you?

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Knowledge Worker Fundraising Gift Gartner 65

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Along with concise, engaging copy, incorporate: Images: If you haven’t already, invest in professional photography that brings your cause to life. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2020

In a recent survey we ran of planned and major giving professionals on March 24, 44% said they were already increasing their digital fundraising. Smart fundraising professionals can be kind, thoughtful, and effective in this challenging time with a few key tactics that we’ve developed. You see a sample phone script for this call here.

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Effective Giving United States Template 40

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Automate your thank-you sequences so that, if someone gives you two gifts in one month, they don’t receive the same generic script each time. Along with concise, engaging copy, incorporate: Images: If you haven’t already, invest in professional photography that brings your cause to life. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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email Communication Effective Fundraising 70

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It helps to provide the people making calls with a script. They are free to veer from the script, but they can use it to get started. Consult your tax professional about any gift you plan to give a donor that costs more than a mug with your logo on it. As with all these warm touches, it’s important not to ask for money.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. A vulnerability across a variety of browsers and platforms, a clickjacking takes the form of embedded code or script that can execute without the user's knowledge, such as clicking on a button that appears to perform another function.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

Create a brief script for everyone to follow, then give everyone a few names to call. ” Your video doesn’t need to be professional quality. Gather up volunteers, staff, and Board members and call your top 10, 20, or 100 donors just to thank them. November is a great month for this but it can work any time of year.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2013

TechSoup also offers professional-level image-editing software from Adobe: Photoshop Extended CS6. Certainly, organizations can use either of these products to create professional-looking images. It also lacks 16-bit color support, for the most part (something that probably only professional photographers would care about ).

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 30, 2014

Double the Donation recommends using a standardized script with some key components (introduction, statement of purpose, first ask, gift confirmation or answers to objections and non-pledge close). More often than not, people will tune out callers who are overly scripted, “salesy” or unauthentic. Don’t over-polish.

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Phone Tips Fundraising Script 55

3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

So we studied the problem, then created custom scripts to clean and de-dupe based on reasonable best practices. The determining factors in the schedule are: size of the database, number of new records added every month/quarter/year, and the variety of input sources (manual vs. automated, professional vs. volunteer).

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Best of all, there are professional Google Grants managers out there to help you navigate the program and make the most compelling ads possible. Although, most nonprofits don’t have enough free time to allocate to the program, which is why they outsource the work to professional Google Grants agencies.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2017

This year, I had the privilege to join fellow museum professionals at Museum Advocacy Day. Provide them with talking scripts if necessary so that they can practice what they are going to say. With a plan and resources, you can arm your biggest supporters with the tools they need to be stewards for your cause.

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Museum Advocacy Script Washington 38

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Don’t be too scripted and embrace the unexpected. You’re essentially becoming an instant broadcast reporter and one-person film crew without any professional training. Show some personality and accept that you will make mistakes, but with each stream you’ll get better. Film close-ups during interviews.

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