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Nonprofit Leaders: How much can you spend without asking your board?
I was listening to a personal finance podcast the other day. My favorite one right now by Ramit Sethi. He interviews couples about how they manage (& fight, disagree, stress over) their finances. The other day he was talking about ‘the number’. You know, the highest dollar amount you each can spend without asking your partner . . .
Nonprofit Leaders: Are Your Donors’ Stocks Down?
Fundraisers: Please don’t put your head in the sand when a few donors have expressed stress over the stock market.
Let’s get a little perspective, shall we?
How To Fix Your Nonprofit’s Cash Flow
Nonprofit CEOs: Are you forced to tap into your line of credit every year at the same time?
If you've wondered if fundraising can fix your CASH FLOW, you're asking the right question. But, nobody's really talking about this issue, but it's a top 3 concern among nonprofits leaders I work with.
Nonprofit Leaders: What WILL you do with your money?
Nonprofit CEOs - It's time to educate everyone about what we SHOULD do with the money our organizations have in the bank.
How to Use LinkedIn to Engage Your Nonprofit Donors
Can we have an honest discussion about something?
If the ONLY day your ED, Board Members, or staff are showing up LinkedIn is on annual giving days (like Giving Tuesday in a few weeks) to ask for a donation, you have a problem.
And not only a problem, but a missed opportunity.
The One Million Dollar Gift: A Problem all Nonprofit CEOs would like to have . . .
What would you do if you were less than 60-days into your new fiscal year and landed a ONE MILLION DOLLAR gift?
I know. You’d take that problem, right? Well, that’s just what happened to my well-deserving client. That’s not even the best part! . . .
You're Doing Nonprofit Fundraising Wrong
I was in a meeting with the Executive Board of one of my clients. And there was a phrase used that showed me they really don’t understand what fundraising even is.
The phrase that took me aback?
Matching Major Donor Gifts through Relational Fundraising
Has this ever happened to you?
My client secured a $100K gift from an individual donor.
The only catch? The donor wanted to use it as a matching gift to inspire others to give . . .
Donor Cultivation: You Need to Share Your Nonprofit's Financial Need and Goals
Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in the friend zone? Not in your dating life… but with a donor?
That’s exactly the challenge my client articulated to me recently. Here’s what was happening:
It Takes Time To Put Your Nonprofit on a Completely Different Revenue Path
I was on a panel discussion recently and a leader sent me this private message. For context, we were discussing nonprofit’s need for greater amounts of general-operating income.
"Hi, Sherry - A question for later...I follow you on LinkedIn and saw recently you posted that many fundraisers do not know how to ask donors for unrestricted general operating support. Can you please elaborate and provide an example of what a successful request for general operating support looks like?"
Nonprofit Leaders: Here's the type of revenue growth your organization could have . . .
If I had to summarize one of the most rewarding things I do for nonprofits, it would be this:
I see an organization’s revenue potential and help them achieve it.
Here’s what type of growth is possible for your small nonprofit organization . . .
Nonprofit Boards sometimes question my secret weapon . . . but I stand behind this objectivity.
You want to know one of my secret weapons to helping organizations grow by millions? And the funny thing is boards are really nervous about it . . .
I’m industry agnostic when it comes to your nonprofits’ missions.
Subtle Shifts Can Make All The Difference in Nonprofit Fundraising
Fundraising is practical. It's identifying what you need to STOP doing so that you can START doing higher-ROI activities.
That's really the reason I started posting my reframe series on LinkedIn that I often share on Fridays!
Here are a few more examples of these important shifts we all must make...