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Top Tips For Hosting Virtual Nonprofit Headquarter Site Visits

Bloomerang

Write a tightly crafted script—and rehearse it. Prepare a brief, 10-minute script about your nonprofit, your programs, and your outcomes. Rehearse the script so you know how long it takes you to get through it. Then, help them craft a script or outline that they can use so their testimony is cohesive and effective.

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Rethink, reuse, and repurpose: How to create more social media content with less work

Candid

Last year, we were inspired by a video from 2011 to create our series on “ red flags” funders look for in grant proposals. The scripts you make for videos are great short-form social media content that can be reused. We routinely look to see what past content performed well and could be updated. Alter the tone. Change the content type.

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[Pre-Register Now]: How to Build A Successful Major Donor Program For Your Nonprofit

CauseVox

Plus, as a special bonus item, you’ll receive Joe Garecht’s exclusive Asking Scripts Guide. This e-guide includes sample fundraising asks, sample major donor funding proposals, and more. Use these items as templates to create successful proposals and major donor asks for your non-profit! Bonus Item!

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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: The Search and Selection

Bloomerang

Share the interview script with all interviewers. That makes the preparation you do in advance to create an interview script, the evaluation matrix, and qualifying criteria that much more valuable. As with the interview process, you’ll want to use a standardized script and matrix to reduce bias.

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What Hocus Pocus Can Teach You About Major Gift Fundraising

Bloomerang

When preparing a major gift proposal, focus on the short-term and long-term impact their gifts would make on the trajectory of the organization. As you would send a note to a friend, do something to make it sound personal and specific, not scripted. Are your appeals emotional and compelling? That’s “Casablanca,” not “Hocus Pocus.”)

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Fundraiser Burnout? Try Automation to Boost Both Efficiency and Employee Morale

sgEngage

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.

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Tips for Adopting a Trust-Based Philanthropy Approach

sgEngage

Do the Homework: Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal. Trust-based philanthropy flips that script, making it the funder’s responsibility to get to know prospective grantees, saving nonprofits time in the early stages of the vetting process.

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