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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.
Grant Writing Essentials: 5 Foundational Tips for Newbies
Let’s say you’ve just been handed your first grant writing project. Welcome to the club!
With little experience and real grant dollars on the line for your organization, the stakes can feel high. For some grants, competition can be quite fierce.
But have no fear—grant writing is a learnable skill that many nonprofit professionals have mastered.
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
4 Factors to Consider When Choosing New Nonprofit Technology
Investing in nonprofit technology is exciting, but choosing a provider can be a difficult decision. Read about four key factors to consider during the process.
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.
Nonprofit Leaders: What to do when your nonprofit has the same problems, same budget, and same results each year . . .
Have I told you that I love Form 990s? So many nuggets of important information in there!
Anytime I hop on the phone with a new nonprofit I quickly look up their Form 990. I scroll back to the Support Schedule in Part II. There you’ll find what the organization has raised over the last five years.