Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The desire to avoid “over-preparation” There’s a fine line between being well-prepared and coming across as scripted or insincere. However, the key is not to memorize a script but to be knowledgeable and flexible enough to adapt to the conversation naturally.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Cowritten and directed by Brady Corbet, it’s a fictional story with underpinnings of world and architectural history. These biographical details in the script were some of the few aspects guiding the design of the Institute.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2021

Share the interview script with all interviewers. Things like physical appearance, accent, or details of a candidate’s personal history can cause us to reach unfair conclusions about them. That makes the preparation you do in advance to create an interview script, the evaluation matrix, and qualifying criteria that much more valuable.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 17, 2010

It doesn't make a lot of sense now, given what I do for a living, but it was my first identity on the web and I know there's a lot of history out there tied to it. It was a line of script on the most recent post pointing to some malware site I obviously won't say here. I have two, judisohn.com and momathome.com Momathome.com is legacy.

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

As we emerge from the depths of the pandemic, we must remember that never in the history of the United States have we experienced an equitable recovery to a disaster or recession. Start by creating sample scripts for thank-you calls, emails, and cards and ask your team to thank your major donors. It has been quite a year. Keep growing.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 19, 2023

That’s as simple as saying something like this: “We’re hosting a capital campaign, which is our largest fundraising event in the history of our nonprofit. Reevaluate your written materials and in-person appeal scripts and see where you can simplify your messaging. If you want to highlight how important it is, do that.

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Qgiv

APRIL 6, 2021

If they have given to your organization in the past, you can look at their past giving history to get a ballpark estimate of how much you should ask for. Check out these scripts for requesting donations from first-time donors and from recurring donors: Donation Request Script for First-Time Donors. Be prepared for rejections.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Organization’s Founding Date/History. There is a long history of questioning how to address inefficient processes in the charitable sector, including grant application and reporting processes that siphon precious time away from nonprofits doing important work. You can find Robinson's scripts used in this analysis here.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

SEE ALSO: 11 Jane Austen movie and TV adaptations we ardently admire and love In the video above, Wright reveals how Darcy's truly iconic hand flex came to be a part of cinema history and how Emma Thompson wrote some of the movie's most frequently quoted lines. You know, you love it. She took home the Oscar for the latter.)

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2013

It is a challenge for me to not judge someone who doesn''t believe in gun control, or not be angry with the corporate customer service rep who can''t answer my question because he needs to keep to a script, or not be selfish when I''m worried about finances, or be collaborative when I''m sure I know the best way. Those feelings come easily.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Names, social security numbers, addresses, emails, bank account details and, of course, credit histories were laid bare in the latest attack, once again reminding us of the fragility of having so much information floating around a digital universe. Of course, the first and best steps to take are to prevent a hack in the first place.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 30, 2014

Double the Donation recommends using a standardized script with some key components (introduction, statement of purpose, first ask, gift confirmation or answers to objections and non-pledge close). More often than not, people will tune out callers who are overly scripted, “salesy” or unauthentic. Don’t over-polish.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

“ AI characters in games, metaverse, virtual worlds are usually fully scripted and not engaging. It was founded to make interactions with characters in virtual worlds and games more engaging and lifelike,” Gelfenbeyn told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. It is also cross platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It has a very long history, though, since it is based on Borland’s InterBase codebase. It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. It is also cross platform.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2021

After a ticket is purchased and committed to our database, I run a small SQL script to dynamically assign ticket numbers, which are inserted into the purchase verification email. . . Personalized ask arrays use known information about the donor (like giving history) to determine an appropriate ask range. .

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CauseVox

APRIL 12, 2022

If you’re doing 1:1 fundraising, we encourage referencing an individual’s donor history. While most organizations tend to focus on peak giving months (spring, year-end, GivingTuesday, etc), Carousel Ranch flipped the script by hosting their peer to peer fundraiser in February. ” – Allen Hohnroth and Renee Berlin.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

Brendan Kilcawley, head of Commercial UKTV Ventures, said: “WeAre8 flips the script on the usual talent/consumer dynamic and puts the user experience front and centre.”. users, and history shows that celebrity endorsement is rarely enough to win over consumers. But Fennessy isn’t just talking these issues up just for kicks.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Instead of uploading their entire list, EDF first segmented it into 2 groups: Giving History. Each group was then further segmented into 3 separate audiences: Giving history divided donors into: Current donors : Members who have donated in the past year. Had a 55% increased conversion rate. Saw a 2X ROI on ad spending.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It’s one of the most iconic photos in history, and it’s that way for a reason. If you are producing a video (rather than just filming things onsite), prepare an engaging script or captions. The first thing your readers should see is an image that makes them want to know the story behind it. Here’s a great example of one such photo.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

One of two non-profit technologists I now know with degrees in theology, Bill brings to his current roles as blogger and consultant an impressive history of non-profit leadership. I've only looked at a few of these, but have completely adopted Better Gmail , a repackaging of several earlier Greasemonkey scripts for use with Gmail.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Evan Jacobs , one of the primary maintainers behind styled-components, told TechCrunch that his project has a history of activism, “most notably our support of the [Black Lives Matter] movement and recommendation to our users to consider donations to the Equal Justice Initiative.”

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A brand story relays the history, character, motivations, and other defining qualities of your nonprofit, from conception until today. The script should provide insight into the nonprofit by following to the common writer’s mantra of “show don’t tell.” Going to the Next Level in 2021 with Stellar Fundraising Auctions. The Brand Story.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Our second example involved matching event attendees from a ticketing system like Eventbrite with donor history from a donor management system like DonorPerfect. This example is a bit more complex, and might involve writing a custom standalone script in a programming language like Python to take advantage of the two APIs.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Automating donor touchpoints, such as pre-scripted acknowledgment letters and prompts for birthday notifications, takes some of the pressure off a fundraiser’s day-to-day so they can focus on one-to-one interaction with high-value donors and personalized communications with major prospects and supporters.

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DataRobot

JULY 20, 2021

There is a long history of identifying malicious software. It’s possible to use this history to build models that allow for an integrated automation pipeline to detect, understand, and remove cyber threats with minimum human intervention. Using bash and Python scripts, we did the following: Converted the npz file to csv.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Alright, that’s a lot of history. Of course, it followed the same script as the Apple lawsuit. Microsoft, Google, and Facebook all would like to offer their streaming game services to iPhone users, but Apple insists that it get a cut on digital purchases and that it have the ability to directly review and list every game.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Different donors have different interests and giving histories. Solution: Utilize your donor management system or CRM to segment your audience based on factors such as giving history, interests, demographics, and engagement levels. Provide scripts, talking points, and resources to support their efforts.

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2011

The creative freedom we were given enabled us to bring the best out of the studio and the fact that we had control over the script meant we could really explore the story we wanted. Set in Georgian London, each episode had a theme such as gangs, prostitution, murder as well as an over arching plot.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

They share the history, they share the finances, all of that. . ” You’re going to provide your board members with the script. ” To each board member, have the script, they pick up their cell phones and they make those calls. Let’s sit down and talk about a script. Things like that.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 5, 2017

Scripting support. 3D, Actions, Adjustments, Brush, Brush Presets, Channels, Character, Character Styles, Clone Source, Color, Histogram, History, Info, Layer Comps, Layers, Libraries, Measurement Log, Navigator, Notes, Paragraph, Paragraph Styles, Paths, Properties, Styles, Swatches, Timeline, Tool Presets. 32-bit support.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

This data includes real estate holdings, giving history, assets, and more. You can send your donor lists through these sites and get back in depth information about their wealth and giving history, to help you understand who might be ready to move from donor to major donor.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Scripting support. 3D, Actions, Adjustments, Brush, Brush Presets, Channels, Character, Character Styles, Clone Source, Color, Histogram, History, Info, Layer Comps, Layers, Libraries, Measurement Log, Navigator, Notes, Paragraph, Paragraph Styles, Paths, Properties, Styles, Swatches, Timeline, Tool Presets. 32-bit support.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2015

Scripting support. 3D, Actions, Adjustments, Brush, Brush Presets, Channels, Character, Character Styles, Clone Source, Color, Histogram, History, Info, Layer Comps, Layers, Libraries, Measurement Log, Navigator, Notes, Paragraph, Paragraph Styles, Paths, Properties, Styles, Swatches, Timeline, Tool Presets. 32-bit support.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

2020’s shift in product launches saw companies trade risky live demonstrations for tightly scripted videos. But most importantly, these presentations removed the possibility of anything going wrong. Prerecording a presentation removes the possibility of things going wrong.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

These histories can be built on but there is a risk they begin to drift from the original prompt and even forget key elements. Video Scripts : AI writers can help nonprofits create compelling video scripts that showcase their work, impact, and vision.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2020

This is the greatest wealth transfer in history, and may be the biggest opportunity for philanthropy ever. You see a sample phone script for this call here. It turns out that many of those Boomers (and other adults), are making those estate planning decisions right now. Ask if you can follow up with “ways that supporters/alumni/etc.

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