Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Showcase Impact Through Stories: Share compelling stories or language that illustrates the positive impact the donor has had on the organization’s mission. By incorporating these elements, you pave the way for meaningful conversations and alleviate any concerns donors might have about your intentions.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

That means you need to pay attention to what you are sharing with donors and when, and how often they hear from you. It also means your communications need to feel like a virtual conversation, meeting their need for interesting, relevant information — not just whatever you feel like telling them. Simple as that. A warm fuzzy.

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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. This is really important if you know the donor because it shows them you’re paying attention and noticed their donation.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

How can you connect with your donors despite all the other ads, social messages, texts, and emails that are vying for their attention? It’s easy to feel like you’re the voice of your organization, and it’s tempting to try to talk like you are that organization. How many of them actually invite you to have a conversation with them?

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These prompts can take many forms, including chatbots, virtual assistants, web interfaces and voice assistants. This work can include writing newsletters, social media posts, research articles, editorials in the voice of the founder, and grant writing. This can lead to increased productivity and cost savings.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 14, 2022

Successfully including all stakeholders in the life of a nonprofit requires attention to enacting and maintaining inclusive practices. I will predominantly utilize Identity-First Language (e.g., disabled people”) as opposed to Person-First Language (e.g., I will predominantly utilize Identity-First Language (e.g.,

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nothing is more boring than boilerplate language: “Your donation will help us bridge the gap between mental illness and health care”. There is a huge need for adequate medical care and attention for for those struggling with mental illness. Keep the conversation flowing for 15-20 minutes. Please give your best gift now.”

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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. This can also be a good place to add your brand voice or donor personas to describe who you are talking to. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

It allows them to have a voice in your message. Make nonprofit storytelling conversational and informal. People these days literally have the attention span of a goldfish, so keep your story short to keep the donor engaged. A bad story uses lots of insider language, jargon and “we.” What’s Your Nonprofit’s Story ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. In this entertaining video of the keynote, they explained these complicated technologies in simple, easy to understand language. Here’s this month’s roundup. You can watch the keynote on YouTube. Hat Tip to Tal Frankfurt). ?.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2017

Strong and effective body language. I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and Effective Body Language. Body language can betray you. Asking is part art and part science.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 23, 2021

Gemba walks help to see people in action, see their movements, their projects, their goals, their roadblocks and hear their conversations. Daily stand-ups give a voice to all team members and empower people to speak up. Continuous feedback loops allow for people to have an equal voice in their organization.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Choose useful metrics that track things like your engagement, impressions, reach, referrals, and conversion rates. Knowing the answers to these questions can help you create content and social media that attracts people’s attention and draws new donors to your website. What would those people be interested in? Develop your brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

I got this great question from someone and I know that many of you may have struggled with this issue and have some wisdom to offer: Hi Beth, My question is: does the voice/tone of a blog need to match up with the voice/tone of the nonprofit? Perhaps that is why I am protective of my blogging voice. Any thoughts or resources?

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

Among those are clickthrough rates, response and conversion rates, and opt-out and unsubscribe rates. Conversely, noted Jarvis, “you can still get phenomenal engagement without necessarily following each and every one of these best practices.” Fundraisers have other metrics available. Actual revenue generated is another datapoint.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and effective body language can help establish an immediate rapport with your audience and signal confidence in your message.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

I recommend having your script down pat so you can focus your attention on your donor. Only 7% of communication is verbal – a whopping 55% is your body language and eye contact! Strong and effective body language can help establish an immediate rapport with your audience and signal confidence in your message.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Personalization alongside a donor’s individual case for support can entirely change conversations around year-end giving. By honing in on outcome language – what you alone can do because of the unique impact you make in this world – donors will naturally gravitate toward giving. Capture their attention! We’re here to help!

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Content needs to be easily digestible and should be written in a way that reflects your brand’s unique tone of voice. . Using links in text is fine, but make sure that there is at least one button that draws attention to your identified call to action. Show + Tell. Make the purpose of your email obvious to readers.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Conversations meander in unconnected directions. You want people focused on their strategic conversation not struggling to make the tool work. Online meetings have to fight for people’s attention even more than in person. Clearly you are missing out on a lot of body language and other non-verbal cues. Ask For Their Focus.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

When it comes to strategic planning, there are a few common hesitations that nonprofits voice throughout the process. You may decide to address this by working with an external fundraising consultant or directing your staff’s attention to building relationships with your most engaged donors who are likely to increase their giving amounts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and chatbots: NLP allows AI to understand, interpret, and respond to human language naturally and engagingly—to create a more responsive and interactive experience. This can include real-time Q&A sessions, polls, quizzes, and user-generated content initiatives. The possibilities are endless!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

They decide with their feet, attention, dollars, and participation. Getting New Voices in Your Head The essential first step to this "community first" process is identifying communities of interest and learning about their assets, needs, and interests. It gets easier to hear their voices in our heads when we make a decision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

How can the backchannel enhance our attentiveness and learning ? In 2005, at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, there was a flap about the backchannel because the conversation crossed a line. . I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response. As we saw with the Haiti response, language can be a huge barrier to response rate as we rely on people to help translate messages at an un-approachable rate.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket. These are toys like Mattel's Internet-connected Hello Barbie that can have a truly interactive conversation with a child. Microsoft is developing a Mandarin-language version of something like that for the Chinese market called Xiaolce.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And I don’t want this to just be a one-way conversation. If you’re ready to have uncomfortable conversations that are momentary. ” I want you to be paying attention. Should I be paying attention to that? You believe that this is the only time that you’re going to get these people’s attention.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 20, 2021

This year, against a backdrop of social unrest and a pandemic, UNHCR is bringing special attention to refugees on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as the communities that host them. Longer-term volunteering is available with an eight-week English language coaching program. Sign up to volunteer or learn more.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 20, 2022

This year, against a backdrop of social unrest and a pandemic, UNHCR is bringing special attention to refugees on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis, as well as the communities that host them. Longer-term volunteering is available with an eight-week English language coaching program. Sign up to volunteer or learn more.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 11, 2019

shows that including even a single video on your nonprofit’s website can improve conversions by as much as 80%! Pay close attention to the language and the tone of voice you choose to use in your script and make sure it aligns with your copy elsewhere. In fact, a study by. Eyeview digital.

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fusionSpan

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Not to single out a particular industry, but while royalty revenue from your credit card program is nice, is it worth losing your members’ attention over the things that really matter to them and to you? Inside Voice. What other suggestions do you have for Rachael to help her member conversations shine?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

So when we talk about people loving people, there are three things that I would like to draw your attention to. Are we giving our donors the same attention as we are giving the people we ask them to love? The whole pack is designed to speak to the reasons of why supporters give in their own language. And he did it in week two.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

So we’re going to talk about how to communicate with authenticity, how to use your voice to convey your message, that’s one V. So we’re at voice, vision, and values. So the first one is your voice, how to use your voice to convey your message. Voice was being one of those. So this is our agenda.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2010

Regardless of how successful this call was, I always hung up feeling things were incomplete.” - Danielle Thomas, Exhale Talkline Counselor & Pro-Voice Ambassador. Danielle says, “As soon as I let a caller know about the community and how she can access it, the tone of conversation changes immediately. We do offer something.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And so we were able to through understanding that there are these moments that there’s a disconnect and using a community planning process, create conversations where we can sit down and say, “What is your assessment of this situation and why do you behave that way?” That was one really fun example. .

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

There’s writer’s block, competition for our attention in the form of social media or our phones, and who can forget about the 50 other responsibilities we have on our plate. The introduction of your article is a 30-second sales pitch, whereby you have to deliver the promise of value in order for the conversation to continue.

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