Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

Pay attention to the donor/attendee experience, then weigh out the potential cost and get ready to PLAN, PLAN, PLAN! You don’t want to spend more than you raise, and poor planning can turn an event into a budget buster that wastes your most precious resource – time and volunteers. The RIGHT event: Raises 10-20% of your annual budget.

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Fundraising Budget Nonprofit Liability Insurance 130

Penelope Burk

AUGUST 3, 2021

That leaves fundraisers stealing from the budget that should be devoted to holding onto the donors they already have. What fundraisers need from leadership is a compelling, priority case, backed by evidence that your not-for-profit is ready and able to make it happen. As a result, profit suffers.

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Fundraising Award Readiness Budget 130

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But are you ready? More importantly, are your staff and volunteers ready and trained to perform productively in their roles? Marketing, facilities, budgeting, management, and everything else has changed, too—if not how you did them, then who accomplished the tasks, and where. Not so fast. Here are five steps to get them there.

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Training Nonprofit Education Readiness 105

Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

Since she signed the Giving Pledge in 2019 and began her momentous campaign of organization-changing donations, MacKenzie Scott has given away more than $17.3 You can create presentation-ready charts that visually show what funds were spent, how they were used, and how that has changed over time.

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Funding Indirect Cost Pass-Through Donation 110

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

But … be ready to do it next year. If your Board adopted a budget for the fiscal year, your fundraising goal is the same as the total expenditures, plus at least 5 percent for cash reserves. Do ONE special event: You’ll never fully fund your budget with lots of little events. If your nonprofit is new, you get to skip this step.

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Fundraising Goals Template Grant 134

OneCause

JULY 7, 2022

The Blackbaud Institute reports that in 2020, total online giving across the sector was up by 21% over 2019. Small nonprofits with budgets less than $1M came a close second, with an over 22% year-over-year increase in their online giving revenue. In a 2019 survey, the Pew Research Center reports that 69% of U.S.

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Policy Policies Pass-Through Budget 59

Just Write Grants

APRIL 4, 2023

Since 2019, she's donated a massive $14 billion to over 1,600 organizations in need, but the process of selecting recipients was a closely-guarded secret. This initiative follows her pledge in 2019 to donate at least half of her fortune to good causes. MacKenzie Scott's philanthropic journey has been shrouded in mystery.

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