2013 Fundraising Reflections
Fact and feeling based questions to focus your year-end fundraising reflections. What have you done well, which activities or strategies didn’t meet expectations, and were your goals realistic?
Tag Archives: fundraising
Museum Fundraising Success
To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heavens. Do you know your purpose and season?
How do you count your money?
You can meet your fundraising goal and still not have the money you need. Learn how to retain donors’ trust and meet goal
Choices and Will
We have witnessed people making choices that make history. Their conscience motivates them to action and they then combine their “will” with “skill” and change individual and collective experience.
Are you headed for a fundraising crisis?
We survived the fiscal cliff, will your nonprofit avoid a fundraising crisis?
How will you fund your strategic plan?
We encourage strategic planning that answers the question “where will the money come from” as part of the process. Determining future directions without seriously evaluating how they will be funded can create an unhealthy stress for nonprofits of any size.
What’s Your Policy?
Take the guesswork out of fundraising. Define your policies and procedures. Nothing can lose the goodwill of an investor or volunteer more quickly than a situation where the rules are changing constantly.
Setting an annual fundraising goal
Did your nonprofit meet its 2013 fundraising goal? The answer, and the reasons why, will be important to consider when setting a goal for 2014.
Summer Reading Can Increase Revenue in the Fall
If you’re serious about improving your fundraising success, and who isn’t these days, this resource will be a blessing for everybody who goes out in your name to raise money.
Donor Research
Do major gifts to nonprofits fall from the sky, or are they more typically the result of deep commitment, relationships, and the ability to use the tools and data available to nonprofits? Learn more about the importance of donor research and truly understanding your donors’ values and motivations.