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How to Make 2025 a Successful Year for Your Nonprofit

Ann Green's Nonprofit

Many individuals make New Years resolutions and set goals. As with personal resolutions, you want your goals to be realistic and attainable. In 2020, organizations that were able to make changes to a plan already in place were most successful. Your goal should be to have donors who support you for a long time.

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LinkedIn For Nonprofits: How It Can Help You Reach Your 2020 Goals

Wild Apricot

LinkedIn for nonprofits isn't just for connecting with professionals in your field, it's also a great platform that you can use to advance your mission and grow your fundraising. Learn how LinkedIn can help your organization in this guide.

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Goals, Objectives, and Outcomes: The Difference + How to Write Them for Successful Grant Proposals

Cain Nonprofit Solutions

But regardless of what type of proposals you may be working on at this moment in time, there is one thing I can say with certainty: You will run into proposals that ask you to write out the goals, objectives, and outcomes for your program or project. Do you know the difference between a goal, an objective, and an outcome?

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2025 Fundraising Evolutions

The Fundraiser Coach

Sometimes they were specific actions, other times they were audacious goals. Sometimes an exquisite resolution gets thwarted (remember 2020?). I used to enjoy making New Year Resolutions. But now I look forward to evolving during the year.

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Gaining Leadership Approval for Major Technology Investments: A Practical Guide for Nonprofit CFOs

Blackbaud

Your ultimate goal is to channel as many resources as possible toward your mission. For example, during the pandemic, nonprofits that invested in paperless processes and technology were better positioned in February of 2020 compared to those that scrambled to adapt to remote work. Where possible, put numbers to these outcomes.

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5 Takeaways From Our “2020 Year-End Fundraising Campaign Guide & Timeline”

Network for Good

No need to stress, though – we wrote the guide on 2020 Year-End Fundraising and now we’re here to break down the 5 key takeaways you need to know. Fundraisers often spend the last few days of the year anxiously tracking donation levels against their campaign and annual goals. Start Early (Right Now).

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3 strategies for more meaningful donor engagement 

Candid

Yet, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project , donor retention rates have been falling since 2020. At Imani Collective, we began inviting donors to be part of specific projects, highlighting the unique contributions they could make to our shared goals. Donors are an important part of any nonprofit’s mission.