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

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. But it turns out that identity-focused language can be even more powerful. Thank you’s.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Fatima is doing very poorly in school because she has no energy, and she is not consuming enough calories to keep her mind sharp. 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.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. If this isn’t practical for you, you can also suggest language callers can use in an email–especially if this is your donor’s preferred method of communication. Begin with an ice breaker to make it fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

Enough that I could understand the language, but where the speakers were new and I was drawing parallels to my own work rather than knowing the script by heart. It’s a reminder that if our real goal is to build something radically new – a new data system, a community center, a society – we may need to get out of our own way.

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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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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Be clear about your goal for the meeting, whether that’s to learn the top 3 charities they support or what they think about your new program or something else. After you decide on your goal, think about the specific questions you want to ask. Once you make an appointment, it’s time to prepare and you definitely want to be ready!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Most people don’t write grants with this in mind. In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. A grant proposal utilizes research to demonstrate emotion and not poetic language.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

At Qgiv, we guide our work by keeping our core values top of mind, and one of those values is empathy. We know the ultimate goal of any nonprofit fundraiser is to raise as much money for the mission as possible. Keep in mind that some venues may not allow you to stake anything into the ground or even tie things to existing structures.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So I want you to keep that in mind that it’s not too late. So we’re going to talk about scripts, and strategy, and tactics, yes, but we’re also going to step into greater courage. So when you’re following up, make sure that you’re prioritizing talking about the impact above even your fundraising goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

As you develop your presentation, notice whether your mind wanders at moments where information isn’t easily digestible or understandable — either in your slides or in what you are saying. In your mind, establish how you want your audience to feel during your presentation: Enthusiastic? It’s not your script. Well, that depends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

As you develop your presentation, notice whether your mind wanders at moments where information isn’t easily digestible or understandable — either in your slides or in what you are saying. In your mind, establish how you want your audience to feel during your presentation: Enthusiastic? It’s not your script. Well, that depends.

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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. And as we all know as fundraisers, one of our main goals is to ensure 100% board participation in both annual and capital fundraising projects. And then participation, which is really focused on fundraising. So what does this mean?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

My whole goal is to service you. So keep that in mind. 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. So keep that in mind. I conduct free webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Learning Goals. 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. From these questions, you need to pick the three most critical metrics to measure success goals. To understand the definition web analytics.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 11, 2019

If you truly want to leverage the full power of video marketing to your nonprofit’s advantage, there are a few key pointers you’re absolutely going to want to keep in mind…. 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. CONSISTENCY IS KING.

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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.” If you don’t believe that phone calls make a difference, that story should change your mind. .

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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. So these are key things you want to keep in mind. They’re top-of-mind ownership. They’re your identity.

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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. So, on here, you see mission and vision, that’s one thing that you want to have in the forefront of your mind. What’s your body language?

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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. A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is the rule of three’s.

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