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The Game Changer On LinkedIn (Infusing Storytelling to Maximize Your Content & Attract Large Donors)
Can you really grow your visibility and start attracting funders on LinkedIn?
Well, I've invited my colleague and friend, Bofta Yimam, to walk us through how she approaches this exact thing! (Cause this is what she does!)
Bofta will be hosting:
The Game Changer On LinkedIn (Infusing Storytelling to Maximize Your Content and Attract Large Donors)
We'll do this on Thursday, May 9th at 10:00 am CT in a short 30-minute intensive followed by a 15-minute Q & A.
FORBES Nonprofit Council // Relational Fundraising — What It Is And How To Improve Your Efforts
This is a note to let you know that I'll be regularly contributing to the Forbes Nonprofit Council!
In these articles I'll be sharing insights on: out-of-the-box fundraising principles, extreme growth, expansive revenue potential, creating high-ROI revenue generating teams and boards, revenue diversification, securing more gen-ops dollars, and building your reserve fund!
SCALING YOUR NONPROFIT 10X — Guest Webcast with Yamilee Toussaint hosted by Donorsearch and Jay Frost
This week I had the privilege of being on the Philanthropy Masterminds Series webcast with my client and colleague, Yamilee Toussaint, Founder and CEO of STEM From Dance! You are all familiar with this great series hosted by Donorsearch and Jay Frost.
We talked about BIG visions, BIG growth, and BIG donations. ← Yamilee is the Queen of this BTW.
The Better Approach To Your Nonprofit Goal Setting—A Totally Different Pace
For too long the nonprofit sector has told everyone that fundraising is about setting a goal, one time.
You know…What’s your Gala goal? What’s your Giving Tuesday goal? What’s the Campaign goal? What’s your Golf Outing goal?
What’s worse is teams and even boards become obsessed with hitting these types of goals way more than reaching the overall annual need of the organization.
The Leaders of Growing Nonprofits are doing these things DIFFERENTLY . . .
The other day I was thinking through my decade-plus of clients and reflecting on what the leaders whose nonprofits scaled at a higher rate were doing differently. There were a few distinct themes separating those who were aggressively scaling vs. moderately growing.
The Questions You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Your Nonprofit Board—with Mary Hiland
I got so much positive feedback on this interview with Mary Hiland back in February that I want to make sure you saw this episode!
I asked Mary a handful of the board related questions I always hear from the leaders I work with! The first one…Is it the board's responsibility to fundraise?
Nonprofit Leaders: Make sure your tone is different in the budgeting season . . .
Happy April! And for some of you that means it’s budgeting season for July FY starts. My favorite time of year!
Now, if you want to grow tremendously over the next few years, make sure you’re not letting the tone and invisible scripts of the nonprofit sector underestimate what you’re capable of.
Stretch Budgets Don’t Set Up Your Nonprofit Team For Success
CEOs - There are two words that just might be keeping your board and development team from fully funding your nonprofit's budget every year.
Those two words?
STRETCH BUDGET
Nonprofit Leaders: You won’t secure a donor’s best gift if you RUSH . . .
One of the hardest pieces of advice for fundraisers to take from me? . . .
Slow down.
You won’t secure a donor’s best gift if you rush. And that's what we're focused on….best gift, every year. For me, that's an unrestricted gift with high levels of flexibility.
Do Your Nonprofit Events Need to Be Fun?
I've started 2024 with an incredible list of clients I’m already inspired by! We are in the thick of things as they prepare to shift out of transactional fundraising and into attracting investment-level donors.
On multiple occasions these last few weeks, I’ve heard something like this:
“My board member wants to throw a fundraising event but they want it to be FUN for their networks they’re inviting.”
Significant Challenges for Nonprofit Fundraising Teams
I had a conversation with a forward-thinking nonprofit leader recently, and her words struck a chord with me. "When I bring a new idea to my board or development team, it feels like an uphill battle to convince them of its financial feasibility."
Ever been there?
Spending Money on Overhead Helps You Raise More Money for Nonprofit Programs
There’s a lot of excitement when your organization receives a large general operating gift . . . initially.
The hope and anticipation of how that gift will change the trajectory of growth—and all the possibilities of where that money COULD go.
You want to do what’s right and make the biggest impact . . . perhaps you’ve been told that means it should go directly to programs.
Well, not so fast.
Nonprofit CEOs: Have you ever had a board member ask to be compensated?
Nonprofit CEOs: Have you ever had a board member ask to be compensated?
This is a question one of my clients was asked recently. So, in my podcast I answered this question by going straight to the expert to provide some clarity: Mary Hiland, Founder and President of Hiland Consulting.