Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Social media is a great tool for supporters to share their personal fundraising pages, so make sure you encourage them to post their pages. Our platform also provides personal fundraising dashboards for participants and tools for gamifying the campaign. These can work as in-person, virtual , or even hybrid events.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This may sound counterintuitive, but you must narrow your focus to reach more prospects likely to convert. The Water Project: Many water charities make vague statements about providing water to every person on the planet. However, The Water Project gets specific: “$50 provides clean water for one person. They’ll find you.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

Avoid jargon or insider language that may confuse newcomers. A homeless veteran who got back on their feet after your transitional housing initiative. Put names, faces, and personal narratives to your mission. When featuring volunteers, focus on their personal motivations and experiences. Cut out fluff and filler.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Storytelling is a great way to connect data points to real people, actions, and outcomes, making cold metrics more engaging and personal. A homeless shelter starts an initiative to get more beneficiaries into permanent housing and jobs. Let’s get started! Understand your audience.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In other words, should the elevator speech include language that refers to the role the donor plays in the organization? Q: Our donor base is all over the map in terms of personal wealth. We house homeless women and children. per day per family sounds reasonable for homeless women and children. Telling your story.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

You either get a credit card donation through your organization’s website or you receive personal checks from donors sent to your organization’s office or P.O. It can be confusing sometimes to determine if the check is from a DAF or a family foundation, as the DAF could have a name that sounds like a family foundation.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Crafting a good nonprofit mission statement forces you to examine your organization’s purpose at its core and then mine the English language for just the right words to convey that purpose in as few words as possible. Sounds good, but what do they actually do? We work to end the cycle of homelessness for families in our community.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Lapsed donors is an industry term that you use and we use, but the average person walking on the street doesn’t go up to somebody and say, “Hey, I’m a lapsed donor of American Cancer Society,” right? So one thing that you absolutely need to look at is, just like it sounds, when did they last give? Makes sense?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We didn’t even really have the language to use to create documentation, or, at least we didn’t think we did. For example, this means strategies that are focused not on feeding the homeless in our city, but on ending homelessness in our city. We assumed the digital space was all new. But we need new resources, too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

Her personal story is chronicled in the memoir, Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam. She speaks three languages fluently, Swahili, English, and French, among many other local languages. When we met her, Honorata was homeless. As goofy as it may sound, it is love.

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