The Next Web

MARCH 20, 2013

There’s more… The second thing I would love to see is an automated script to keep spammers busy. Please fill out the attached form and mail it back to me at your earliest convenience” The attached PDF is of course 40 pages long and contains 600 forms that need to be filled out. It would be hilarious, and effective.

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The Verge

JANUARY 17, 2022

Their plans included an animated series inspired by Jodorowsky’s Dune , and as any good collector likely knows, buying a commemorative copy of a script or storyboard doesn’t give you the right to shoot your own version. Buying Dune’s script doesn’t give you the copyright — but it earns you lots of publicity.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 30, 2009

I no longer have to be concerned about keeping my mail tabs accessible in Safari. Mail, Facebook are built in to Fluid. I can’t use the Better Gmail extension I loved from Firefox, but I can easily add some of the scripts (not all work) to my mail browsing experience in their SSB. This is killer.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

I went to school for music education and, up until this point, had a long-winding road learning how to write code in Google Apps Script. I’d never coded anything before diving into Google Apps Script a few years earlier. Over the years, simple scripts took shape that developed into more complex scripts that became indispensable.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The subject line is like the envelope for a direct mail letter; it’s a critical part of your appeal “package” as 47% of email recipients open an email based on the subject line alone. According to direct mail expert Mal Warwick, the follow-up letter can boost your overall return by 15-25%. . Here’s a sample script you can use: . “Hi!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

You want your ambassadors to be themselves, not a scripted version that resembles themselves and strips away the authenticity that made their relationship as an ambassador so powerful, to begin with. So set objectives and let them guide you. 2) Choose the right people. These are guides you’re providing – not mandates.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Edit the Household record to insert the mailing address. I’d love to see some conditional logic in a later version of Visual Workflow so I can script something like “If email address is entered, match that otherwise match first/last name.” Save the record, the Household is automatically created.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Taking a multi-pronged approach Feeding America advises using a multi-pronged direct marketing approach that includes and integrates direct mail, personal phone calls (including telemarketing), texting, and video. I asked Aaron about Feeding America’s current commitment to direct mail. There’s nothing better than that.”

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Blue Fox

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Is your staff prepared to make the asks, attend the events, mail the collateral and try some Facebook fundraising ads? In 2020, U.S. nonprofits raised $2.47 billion dollars. What was your piece of that ‘pumpkin’ pie? Let’s talk 2021! What about your board members… are they fired up for fundraising season?

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Plan Impact-Driven End-of-Year Giving Campaigns You’ve raised money all year long using different techniques from direct mail to email marketing. If anyone’s a bit “phone shy,” consider creating a simple script. Most of the time, you’ve asked for money to create change. Encourage your staff and volunteers to make the phone calls.

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 1, 2015

You keep mailing out newsletters and fundraising appeals. You keep adding new donors, new prospects and your mailing lists get larger. Have you done the math on returned mail? If 5% of the addresses are bad, that’s 5,000 pieces of returned or wasted mail each mailing. Donors lapse. Some move away. Others pass away.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Call before sending Immediately after dropping an appeal letter in the mail to top-tier and second-tier donors, call them to announce that an appeal will be coming in the mail. Create a short, powerful, well-written script that callers can use as a guide, but allow the callers freedom to go off script and just express their gratitude.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 18, 2012

Most successful annual giving programs consist of a combination of regular email communications, direct mail pieces, telephone calls and face-to-face meetings. The plan is important to be sure the schedule is followed and communications are coordinated to prevent email or mail overload. Create scripts and make the asks.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

If it’s helpful, consider drafting a short call script for your board members to refer to in their Thanksgiving messages to donors. In the script, be sure to mention the donor’s name, the amount they contributed, and maybe add one unique detail about their donation (time, place, etc.). After all, it’s the thought that counts.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 11, 2022

If a prospective donor encounters an obstacle while trying to donate (like if your donation process is cumbersome or if they can’t find the donate button or if there’s no address for them to mail a check), they may give up. You might be surprised how many people will want to write a check and mail it to you! Don’t go on and on.

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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. An exclusively online campaign can be executed much faster than a traditional direct mail campaign. You can learn how to make this call by grabbing my free Thank You Calls E-Book + Script.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Engagement Meter looks at giving history (recency, years given, upgraded gifts), interactions (event attendance, volunteering, communication preferences, website visits), and e-mail (subscribes, opens, clicks) to give you a temperature reading on each donor in your database. . That’s “Casablanca,” not “Hocus Pocus.”)

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The app has raised a small $1.25M seed raise to carry out this vision, led by General Catalyst with participation from Kleiner Perkins’ discovery fund, Dream Machine, Script Capital and Urban US. Their model relies on so-called “super neighbors” doing much of the initial onboarding work for their building.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

People really like getting an actual physical thing in the mail (versus a code to download an iPhone app). When it moves outside the top of the browser window the script assumes that person is going to leave (either by hitting the back button or the close tab button) and quickly displays a popup with an offer. Always driving sales.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

I use several Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr: AllSizes+, How Interesting?, Mail to, and my absolute favorite Photo Compass. at 8:50 am Thanks for the tip about AdBlock Plus. It’s brill — it gets rid of all the ads on Facebook.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2023

Mail The gold standard is a prompt and personal mailed thank you letter. It’s why I advocate mailing a thank you letter to donors who give online, in addition to the immediate email receipt. Let them know they’ll receive their ‘official’ thank you later in the mail. Top 10 Ways to Say ‘Thank You!’ to Nonprofit Donors 1.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

The way that Vote Forward manages volunteers is by letting people “adopt” a mailing list of potential voters and then gives instructions for them to send letters from a printed script that can be customized. Recruit volunteer thank you ambassadors to leave scripted messages on fundraising pages.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If they donate by check, you should send them a hard copy thank-you letter with tax information by regular postal mail, sent within two business days of when you receive their check. You can include a mail option and a QR code linking to an electronic survey. It helps to provide the people making calls with a script.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

You have to collect stories and photos of program participants, get their consent, pull data on your programs, clean up your donor database, plan events, schedule donor meetings, print materials, fix your mail merge and lick a thousand envelopes ? Direct Mail. all in one month. . So, why do we all wait till the last minute?

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 14, 2014

Furthermore, the typical nonprofit cleans data reactively, once problems are discovered or direct mail pieces are returned to the office. If you don’t, you have plenty of company. Most nonprofits that we speak with do not. This work should be scheduled and completed independent of your communications or fundraising event schedules.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Finalize your direct mail and send it (and your data) to the print/mail house. you designed and finalized your direct mail appeal (and, hopefully, the rest of your fundraising pieces). Now it’s time to get your appeal to your print/mail house so it can get out the door! October. , Build and prep email solicitations.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Being thanked for my previous gift was much more persuasive than receiving multiple emails and direct mail letters. Learn more in my free Donor Thank You Calls eBook + Script. It can also come from an influencer (someone the donor is likely to respect), testifying to the impact. One week after gift: .

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

For this group, make between two and eight solicitations a year, mostly via mail. Make sure to go through a quick training and provide a script that folks can use when they reach a donor’s voicemail. Make Fewer Asks. This one is simple. When you’re asking for more money, you should be asking less frequently. Get on the Phone.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2014

For instance, by converting a Word file to PDF, any potentially harmful scripts can be removed. In addition to using backup tapes, check if your email security solution also provides mail backup functionality. Check Internal Emails. Add Legal Footer.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

They cut down on the number of reports they mailed directly (and made the report available online) but made sure to continue sending the paper version to some local lawyers. When you designate the next steps supporters should take to further engage with your organization, you ensure the mailer won’t just get lost with their junk mail.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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. Add “subscribe” buttons not only on your website, but also in the footer of your emails, in email signatures, on direct mail QR codes, and in your social media bios. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

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. Add “subscribe” buttons not only on your website, but also in the footer of your emails, in email signatures, on direct mail QR codes, and in your social media bios. Thank you’s. Peer to peer.

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Mail them a handwritten card. Even in an increasingly digital-first world, getting something in the mail is refreshing and can be heartwarming. Mail them swag or merch. . Come up with a simple script for a short video. Some things never go out of style. Order shirts, socks, hats, masks, pens, mugs, or other items.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

In this blog, you’ll find articles about: Opinions on Industry Trends, Topics in Behavioral Science, Whitepapers and Case Studies in Philanthropy, and Direct Mail and Online Fundraising. THE AGITATOR / DONOR VOICE. The Agitator is written by nonprofit marketers and fundraisers who were fed up with the status quo. BETH’S BLOG.

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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. . . Increase giving with personalized ask arrays. . This is a great way to use technology to increase donations by meeting donors where they are.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

direct mail, email, social media, text, phone, advertising, website), targeting different donor audiences. You can find a sample script here. No one plan fits all nonprofits, but there are all sorts of successful strategies from which you can pick and choose. Even better, pick different strategies to use across multiple channels (e.g.,

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

Your donor software should allow you to insert the donor’s name into the thank-you in either email or snail mail letters. It creates two pieces of mail or email for the donor to open and read. Create a brief script for everyone to follow, then give everyone a few names to call. I don’t like this approach.

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