Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

If you can not attend the webinar live, please register and you will be sent a link to the recording 24-48 hours after the webinar is over.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 15, 2021

It’s packed with thank-you email templates, video scripts, segmentation tips, and more. Consider this your guide to crafting timely, personalized thank-you messages. Get your kit now!

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NetWits

MAY 12, 2011

Help your event participants understand the power of a video appeal and even provide a script they can use to record their own! A personal message directly from your participant about why your cause is so important to them will help them achieve their goals.

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NetWits

JUNE 22, 2011

Sample tweets, emails, Facebook posts, employee memos, phone scripts, communication plans, and anything else they’ll need to inspire and manage their team. Include a sample script of what to say to team members. Chances are, being a team captain is one many “priorities” in someone’s life. And I mean everything.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

We also recently made enhancements to our OpenVPB phone bank organizing tool to allow users to set a default script and up to four alternate scripts for their phone banks.

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Donorbox

APRIL 6, 2023

We’ll also provide 7 steps to planning and running your own […] The post How to Run Successful Phone-A-Thons [+ Sample Script] appeared first on Nonprofit Blog. In this article, we’ll walk you through the basics of this classic fundraising technique.

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Donorbox

APRIL 8, 2022

The post All You Need to Know About Fundraising Scripts (Samples Included) appeared first on Nonprofit Blog. Organizations may hold events and send mail or email appeals to ask for donations, but there will come a time when phone calls or in-person asks are the best […].

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VisionLink

MARCH 7, 2014

Last year, 11,000 hospital and clinic patients received prescriptions for food and heat, along with scripts for their medicines. How does it work?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Identifying your scripts and the stories you tell yourself. Scripts are the beliefs we’ve formed about ourselves that lead us to think and act a certain way. If you doubt yourself often, you’re probably listening to scripts that reinforce a negative opinion of yourself. The Inner Critic. This voice can come from several places.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Write a tightly crafted script—and rehearse it. Prepare a brief, 10-minute script about your nonprofit, your programs, and your outcomes. Rehearse the script so you know how long it takes you to get through it. Then, help them craft a script or outline that they can use so their testimony is cohesive and effective.

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EveryAction

JUNE 23, 2023

Write the script Your supporters are much more likely to make a call if they feel adequately prepared—they’ll want to know who they are calling, what they should say, important background information, and logistical instructions about how the calling process will work.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Make video part of your broader content workflow Consider how video script writing can fit into the broader way you create content. This can mean creating a video that gets expanded into a blog or shortening a blog into a video script. It started as a 90-second video script. We tie our videos to our blog posts.

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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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Greater Giving

MAY 14, 2024

Scripting Your Thank-A-Thon Calls Develop a Thank You Script Provide an outline for your volunteers to follow. Print Call Scripts with Blanks Print call scripts for each volunteer with blanks to personalize greetings and mentions of specific contributions. Keep it brief, around 10 seconds. Wish them well.

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TechImpact

MARCH 24, 2014

Some browsers do not support HTML, while some individuals may be running old machines, with out-dated software, who can not view advanced scripts and formats. It is important to realize that not every person receiving your nonprofit’s email will receive the fully HTML optimized version.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Or you could add an option to your direct mail response cards and telemarketing scripts for donors to make recurring gifts. In just a few minutes, donors can click a button in your email newsletter to donate, provide their monthly gift amount and payment information, and just like that they are part of your recurring giving program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2022

For example, if your logo typeface is a script, you’ll want to select a san-serif typeface that works well as body copy. If your logo has just one typeface, you will want to find another type family that both pairs nicely with your logo typeface and can fill a gap that your logo typeface isn’t able to accomplish.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Have a script when you ask for the donation…. When they are the ones making donation appeals, the asks are more genuine and sincere as opposed to scripted and stiff. Have a script when you ask for the donation… …But don’t read from it. Plot out your general scripts accordingly.

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

Such resources should include sample solicitation letters for mail and email, quick stats and impact statements for social media, sample scripts for phone calls, and thank you letters for follow-up communications. Provide peer-to-peer fundraisers with easy access to information and resources they can use to fundraiser for your event.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Create a standardized script. Include matching gifts in call scripts. To illustrate our point, take a look at two possible phonathon script introductions: Phonathon Script Introduction #1: “I’m calling on behalf of University X to raise money for our annual phonathon campaign. Create a standardized script.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Start with a straightforward script Give your volunteers a warm, personable thank you script. It should sound like a conversation (not like a thank-you script a robot might write). Your donors are touched when they hear from a leadership volunteer taking (unpaid) time from their busy day just to say thanks.

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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. These are guides you’re providing – not mandates. This is not the time for brand policing. You want individuals with personalities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

It’s not your script. What is the best ratio of spoken language to visual slides in your online presentation? Well, that depends. Eileen on using slides most effectively: “The purpose of the slide is a visual aid for the audience. Think about the slides and the speech as complementary to each other, not redundancies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

Now another important aspect of our strategy for enhancing Bookshare’s new language capabilities is developing the capacity to handle non-European scripts and languages so that the content may be presented in its original form in our members’ native languages. The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Supply sample fundraising emails, Facebook posts, tweets, phone scripts, thank you notes, approved logos, etc. Provide samples of everything. Don’t let your fundraisers get stuck on something you could have easily provided. Provide fundraising success stories.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

It is simple to add an option to your direct mail response cards, telemarketing scripts and online fundraising initiatives. Once set up with an appropriate technology solution, thousands of gifts can be handled electronically, reducing the burden on staff. Easily integrates with other fundraising methods being deployed at an organization.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

For a longer video, consider writing a script. Scripting: Even if you don’t plan to read from a script, you still should write a script. Just speak directly into the camera and from your heart. For a short video with a simple message, you can get it right with just take a few takes.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 13, 2012

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.” I can only match against first & last name because that’s all that’s required. ” For now, this will do.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Offer a couple of suggested scripts they can pick from or modify. For example, if you’re an animal rescue, you could provide a script specifically for donors who have adopted a pet from you. In addition to a script for the fundraiser itself, offer a sample communications plan a volunteer can follow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Allowing those to speak for themselves is more compelling than anything we could script ourselves. We couldn’t have scripted better ads. So many of them are quite moving—people telling their stories of tragedy and loss, or how they were saved by a friend or even a complete stranger. They are why we do the work we do. (6)

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Enter a script within your “functions.php” file. That script will cause a message appear to someone attempting to access your site with the incorrect login information and will ditch the login hint cues. This is prime territory for hackers, who know ways to manipulate these programs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Interest or experience with other technologies we use, including Java, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, bash scripting, make, SWeave, BibTex, Weka, svn, Django, and xml processing. Distributed and parallel algorithms, machine learning, computer security & crypto, data visualization, web programming, and statistics.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ideally, a copywriter, a marketer, and an IT staffer would collaborate to develop the scripts. Find the Bot’s Voice Consider which topics people are more comfortable discussing with a machine and which are better suited to a human. Then, define the primary user questions and corresponding answers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

I’ve been involved in web application development basically since they started – when, when a cgi-bin folder with some perl scripts to process simple forms was the norm. As most of you know, I’m a very long time veteran of web application building.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Tailor your evaluation matrix and script . Also, as it relates to the hiring matrix and the interview script, be sure to consider the role you wish for the consultant to play and their skills, experience, and expertise, as well as any specialized training required for the role. . This is a short-term and long-term strategy. .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2021

Share the interview script with all interviewers. That makes the preparation you do in advance to create an interview script, the evaluation matrix, and qualifying criteria that much more valuable. As with the interview process, you’ll want to use a standardized script and matrix to reduce bias.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Two examples: you could use AI to create a word-for-word script of what to say on your next call with a major donor, or you could use AI to create a one-page brief. If you recite the script—cringe alert—you will sound unnatural, even robotic.

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