Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2023

a person, place, animal or cause), not “we” or the name of your organization. Words When it comes to words, here are my favorites to sprinkle throughout your appeal as appropriate: You Because Thanks Small Immediate Expert Support You “You” is one of the five most powerful words in the English language. Name your beneficiary (e.g.,

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Classy

APRIL 9, 2021

Leverage Language and Formatting From Past Grants. As you develop language for different funding priorities, organize it into folders by topic to make it easy to pull for additional grant applications. In addition, make sure your grant team has easy, centralized access to basic marketing and branding language for your nonprofit.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

This completes the cycle and sets the stage for your organization to receive another gift from the donor. Given how important the donation receipt is in securing a future gift and inspiring the donor to tell others about your organization, crafting the perfect donation receipt is hardly a clerical task to check off your list.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 14, 2022

I will predominantly utilize Identity-First Language (e.g., disabled people”) as opposed to Person-First Language (e.g., However, proponents of the disability justice movement posit that disability is not a bad word, and efforts have been made to embrace Identity-First Language (IFL) and to reclaim the word disability itself.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nonprofits rely on donations and unless you are independently wealthy and able to self-fund your organization, you’ll need to share with folks a request for donations. It takes commitment, guts, and a great story. Pretend for a moment that the organization isn’t yours. Okay, here’s one more technique that can work.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A year-end fundraising appeal is the persuasive content a nonprofit organization uses to ask for financial support for at the end of the year (aka during the height of the giving season). This is your opportunity to draw donors in with your story and get them personally invested in your cause. What does your organization do?

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 13, 2021

You is one of the five most powerful words in the English language. You is at the top of his list of the 5 Most Powerful Words in the English Language. You can add your supporter’s name to your subject line, your story introduction, and weave it in when you make your ask. Have you heard? Magic Word #3: Thanks.

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

Since the 1800s, organizations by and for people with disabilities have existed, but they exploded in popularity in the 1900s. If you feel comfortable with sharing your own disability story, you can use your social media platforms to share why you celebrate Disability Pride Month and what disability pride means to you!

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

According to a guideline published by M+R, a useful quick test for your own messaging is to simply answer the question: If the subject of this story were to read it, how would they feel? The challenges of strength-based messaging Finding the balance in your story. Finding the balance in your organization.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Simply put, focus on the people whose lives are made better by your organization. Once you identify the message of your fundraising email, you can add the stories, photos, and videos that drive the message home. Your list might look something like this: Andrea’s success story. Jamie’s success story. What would you say?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

By telling the right stories in the right way, you can lure visitors to your donation page and inspire them to give. Just like I have visited retail sites and impulsively purchased something that caught my interest, I have donated to organizations I knew very little about just by visiting their website.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

This allows supporters to feel more connected to the organization and the cause itself. Setting Up Your Personal Fundraising Page A personal fundraising page, like the one seen above, is where individuals or individuals within a team can share their story, set a goal and invite their network to give. Why do you care?

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Like many diversity efforts, including women’s voices in grantmaking decisions—particularly women from historically marginalized groups—doesn’t often happen organically. The organization was recruiting women who had spare time—which left out many of the younger, more diverse voices who had children, school, and multiple priorities.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

It goes without saying, but calendar year-end is a critical time for many nonprofit organizations. The more you can understand who’s supported your organization in the past, the more you can understand who is likely to support you in the future. Stay tuned to discover actionable insights that can truly make a difference.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Donor engagement is what your organization does to build and strengthen donor relationships and the methods you use to keep donors active and involved. Your donor engagement strategy outlines exactly how you’ll reach out to donors and the KPIs you’ll track to measure how engaged a donor is with your organization.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising videos bring your organization’s work to life in a way that written stories just can’t. They speak to supporters with authenticity and display your story in a way that easily grabs the viewer’s heart. Explainer video: This type of video introduces your organization or a new program or service.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This has helped to save employee’s time and the valuable investment of the organization. . AI, which uses machine learning techniques for streamlining the operations and enhancing programs at the nonprofits, has acted as a catalyst in transforming many organizations. Resolving food and water crises. Raising funds for orphanages.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

This method makes complex concepts easier for your stakeholders to understand and makes it easier to have more informed discussions on the next steps your organization should take. “Map out the story you need to tell. When you use a donor’s love language the first thing you see is verbal feedback, not dollars.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

And that’s not to mention the hassle that sometimes comes with trying to get young children excited about reading. However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Because when you look around at today’s crises — whether that’s the recent floods in Pakistan or providing meals to children during the pandemic — you see nonprofits helping, solving, and rebuilding. Here are some of the highlights: Five Weeks to “A Miracle”: The Ukrainian Red Cross’s Story. Rewatch this session on Salesforce+.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 28, 2023

From Mother’s Day campaigns raising money for breast cancer research to Christmas fundraisers collecting gifts for children in need, great holiday fundraisers stick in your mind for years afterwards. Adding holiday filters, stickers, or music to social media stories promoting the fundraiser. It’s not thanks to the holiday alone.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2022

To provide some background, Invest in Kids is a Denver-based nonprofit dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of young children and families across the state through a wide spectrum of services including prenatal care, social-emotional learning, and in-home family therapy. With CauseVox, registration is a short five step process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2012

This is twice the rate of Caucasians and even within the tweeting Latino community there is a breadth of diversity in terms of race, socioeconomic background, immigration status and English-language capabilities. MomsRising is an online and on-the-ground organization with over a million members, many of whom are Latinas.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

But how do you get to know someone when all you know is that they gave your organization a bigger-than-average donation in the last year? You can say something like this: “ Thank you again for your generous gift to XYZ organization! Some donors are very open to getting to know the organization they just donated to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Organizations’ communications strategies have more impact individually and collectively. So, for these organizations, their content pyramid also includes integrating offline w/online channels. More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. The story of what happened after that trip has been told in other publications. What a photo find!! I never climbed the mountain.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

We are surrounded by stories: our own story, the stories of our families and friends, and the stories of the work we do every day. These stories simply exist in our minds until we add language and share them with others. And, as we all know, a story you share with others has the power to change the world.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. The good news, this change is coming slowly with organizations shifting focus and adopting new policies and programs to promote healthier, more balanced lifestyles to increase options and opportunities, especially for those facing real hunger.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I was in NYC over the weekend and Monday to attend and speak at the Mashable Social Good Summit , a three-day conference featuring discussions and presentations with global social activists, organizations, and new media experts. There were a couple of big takeaways for me: Inspiration and Feeling Good About The Desire to Do Good.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This guide will help you to outline and develop a year-end fundraising campaign that works for your organization and your donors, specifically curated to your needs in 2021. How has COVID impacted your organization? A good story is an incredible tool and whatever quote or story you decide to use, make sure it’s relatable and clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

KONY2012 has prompted countless reporters, bloggers, and talking heads to comment on the changing ways in which we are becoming aware of social problems and the organizations that are tackling them. In many ways, however, the KONY2012 episode is an old story about the power of social capital and strong narratives.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

But healthy donor retention numbers within Neon CRM users show that donors are more than happy to support organizations they’ve previously been involved with. What you can learn : Create a cohesive story about what GivingTuesday campaign donations will fund. When Do Donors Give?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Pacific time at PARISOMA — and join us in celebration of the many powerful digital story submissions that came to us from all over the world! Previously, Lisa served as the founding CEO of the 1:1 Fund, a project incubated by CFED to build a broad online and high net-worth donor base for children’s savings accounts.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2017

In recent years, we’ve seen a major uptick in organizations across the social good sector looking at data – and how to use data – in new ways. In fact, when I was conducting research for my book Data Driven Nonprofits , I spoke with data champions in a wide variety of organizations across numerous focus areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This was not the answer they might have predicted, yet it is a critical service to provide particularly given that close to 40% of partner agency clients served are children under the age of 18.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 11, 2019

If you spend any time working with foundations, you’ll notice a central thread in the stories told by their leaders, in the content posted to their websites, and in the information they share with the news media. Most foundation stories start and end with money. That thread is money. That’s a shame.

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