A Capital Campaign for What?

Make your nonprofit’s next capital campaign one that doubles your nonprofit’s impact. […]

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Mission Centric Versus Budget Centric

Keeping a nonprofit mission and client centric requires effective fundraising. […]

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Do Donors Know Your Value?

Something else is more important to nonprofits than donors are. […]

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Who Sets the Goal?

Is your nonprofit’s fundraising goal based upon the needs of the budget or the needs of the mission? […]

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How Much Is Enough?

“How much is enough?” is a difficult question to answer when setting the annual fundraising goal. There is a temptation to answer the question by saying, “Raise as much as you can” but is that the optimal answer? […]

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Your Budget Is a Donor Cultivation Tool

Your nonprofit’s budget has the potential to be either a source of confusion for your donors or a donor cultivation tool. […]

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Being Specific

A restricted gift takes more effort to manage but it provides benefits that justify your effort. […]

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Life-Long Donors

It is hard to have a sustainable nonprofit in part because it is hard to have a sustainable funding stream. […]

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Funding the Budget

For many nonprofits, the fiscal year is the same as the calendar year. That means budgeting will start soon. It also means that creating the funding plan for next year should start now. […]

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Mutual Accountability

The success of a nonprofit depends on a partnership between the organization, its donors, and the community. Today, many of our communities are asking the nonprofits to do more. How can you be responsive with limited resources? […]

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