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What Hocus Pocus Can Teach You About Major Gift Fundraising

Bloomerang

As you would send a note to a friend, do something to make it sound personal and specific, not scripted. Keep in mind this isn’t the time to go on about stats and successes of your programs—save that for another time. I was once told to treat each donation as the start of a beautiful friendship.

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Leesa Barnes: How To Plan A Killer Podcast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another person looks at their blog or Web stats and sees what key words people were searching on that lead visitors to their site. Note: She'd like a developer to create script where you could submit to all these directories in one click version going to each one seperately because it is very time consuming.).

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

Bloomerang

Remember the stat from before? 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. Volunteering may not immediately sound like an appreciation idea, but hear us out!

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

Bloomerang

Remember the stat from before? 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. Volunteering may not immediately sound like an appreciation idea, but hear us out!

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[VIDEO] The 3 V’s of Virtual Communication

Bloomerang

Because I sound like a broken record saying this, I’m going to say it again, volunteers make your very best donors. So you want to focus on info and stats about your cause, rather than your thoughts, appearance, or external factors. And so I’ll do like a script with them. Why is this important? I bypass it totally.

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[VIDEO] You’ve Been Let Go From Your Nonprofit Job – Now What?

Bloomerang

Talk to each other, introduce yourself in the chat if you haven’t already because we will save some time for some Q&A once we kind of get through our scripted questions. The other thing to maybe start sounding like a broken record is really to tap your network. You can also tweet us.

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

Bloomerang

” Write your phone ask scripts and plan your list of who you’re going to call and what you’re going to ask for. In November I want you to set up all of your acknowledgments, your email autoresponder, your thank you cards, your thank you scripts. If you do that, I recommend giving them a script to make it super easy.

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