M+R

JULY 10, 2023

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. Q: Do I know what my goals and guidelines are? Is the call to action clear?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

When segmenting your list, be careful about language that could alienate certain donors. 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. Williams suggests classifying donors by tiers, rather than by “major” or “minor” gifts. Thank you’s.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. Prime with your data : To personalize the AI-generated content, incorporate relevant information from your nonprofit, such as email copy, key metrics, goals, mission and core values.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

To do that, you have to connect with them emotionally through a story, a photo, and hero language that makes them feel special and important, like they personally stepped in and made a difference through their gift. Many donors won’t understand your insider language and will stop reading. A perfect thank-you letter does both.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Often the sales funnel is part of the visualization: Awareness Evaluation or Consideration Engagement or Decision Action or Donation Advocacy or Loyalty Michael Johnston, co-founder and president of HJC New Media , encourages nonprofit organizations to take a page from the mapping playbooks of for-profit enterprises.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Planned Giving Is Accessible to All Planned giving flips the script on the traditional donation structure because it does not disrupt a supporter’s current cash flow. Realistic Revenue Goals: A well-run planned giving program can facilitate long-term growth. Here are additional benefits of implementing a planned giving program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

Bots needs to be designed increase engagement, support and inspire offline action. The bot is programmed to encourage fans who message the page to sign up for different actions. To design an effective bot, you first need to figure its purpose and how it connects to your goals. There are two design tasks.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Start with five to eight fundraising ambassadors with a goal of understanding them and how they can best engage in ways that will make them feel great while raising money for your organization. Just asking ambassadors to spread the word and “help us reach our fundraising goal” won’t lead anywhere. These actions are too vague.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Use Normal Language in Your Story A long, drawn-out, flat story with a bunch of numbers and statistics and jargon is not a good way to convey your message and your needs. Our goal is to expand our shelter so that we can help more women and children who need an emergency place to stay. Did you recognize the five elements in our story?

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Even though it was a first time event, they met and exceeded their goal of $25,000. A stellar toolkit: to help out their fundraisers, they put together a resource that answered common questions, provided basic fundraising advice, and laid out scripts for fundraisers to use. So how did they do it?

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

We also recently made enhancements to our OpenVPB phone bank organizing tool to allow users to set a default script and up to four alternate scripts for their phone banks. Mobilize is here to stay. We’re better together through collaboration and innovation.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It’s the goal of every nonprofit that creates a video – creating a video that has impact. During the hour-long chat on Twitter, nonprofit video experts and audience shared thoughts on what makes powerful videos, technical aspects of creating video that leads to action, and techniques to ensure a video gets shared.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Julie Ordoñez will outline a proven strategy, messaging and action steps you can implement right away to close major gifts faster, ethically. So we’re going to talk about scripts, and strategy, and tactics, yes, but we’re also going to step into greater courage. Julie: Let’s do it. Steven: All right, awesome.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

We know the ultimate goal of any nonprofit fundraiser is to raise as much money for the mission as possible. Consider your attendee goal and make sure you have enough bartenders to keep the lines moving. Whatever you decide regarding attendee goal, try to have your plan mapped out before opening registration or ticket sales.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Armed with greater knowledge and ready to take action? The goals of any online presentation are for your key takeaways to (1) be cemented in the minds of your attendees, (2) be shared with other interested parties, or (3) inspire action in support of your cause. It’s not your script. Deeply connected to your topic?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So we have three key goals for our conversation this afternoon or morning depending on where you are. Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly. And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Learning Goals. To understand how to identify actionable reports from the complex sea of information collected in an analytics tool. To demonstrate how to get started using Google Analytics, navigate filters, and use goal-setting features. What follows is a very rough draft for a script. What is the call to action?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Armed with greater knowledge and ready to take action? The goals of any online presentation are for your key takeaways to (1) be cemented in the minds of your attendees, (2) be shared with other interested parties, or (3) inspire action in support of your cause. It’s not your script. Deeply connected to your topic?

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Kindful

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I know that this is a stressful time for fundraisers who are hoping to hit their ambitious end-of-year goals. here’s a sample script you can use when speaking with your potential donors : . Does the thank you landing page contain donor-centric thank you language? Tip #1: Pick up the phone to solicit gifts. .

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

My whole goal is to service you. And at the end, those who reached their goal, we had an incentive where they got another board member sponsor taking them out to a fancy restaurant where everybody wanted to go and we paid for the dinner and all of that. ” You’re going to provide your board members with the script.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 11, 2019

While we recommend tailoring your messaging/delivery to your specific goals, there are five core formats you may want to consider including: Broadcast Your Values – Meet the Team Videos. Once your supporters start to get a sense of just how hard your team is working towards a common goal, they may want to contribute themselves.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So they humanized this to something that’s well beyond a goal and a thermometer. When you match our first half million,” notice the language there, “we will make another grant of a half million.” I really want to make sure I get the language right.” And it is for both online and offline actions.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. But you really want to script it, you just don’t want to have some. But you can just do. ” That needs to come through.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

You want to keep your goal in mind. Your goal when you’re making these virtual asks, and really any ask, is to build connection and community. That is from one action from one Zoom briefing. Use your communication channels to highlight current volunteers by using testimonials with a call to action. Let’s see.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Planning – Align research with business goals and capabilities (often limited by resources) to attract leads into a paying customer or donor. Measure – Prove to leadership that the investments made are yielding incremental results toward your goals. Another is the need for your content to persuade readers to take an action.

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