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Lessons from MotivateMonday | Great Fundraising Organizations (and how to become one!)

Pamela Grow

Invest in the Long Term: Giles Pegram, a UK consultant, found that a $1 million investment in fundraising produced a 12x return over 14 years compared to traditional investments.But nonprofits often demand immediate results, tying fundraising to one-year or three-year budgets. Click here to download the slides. Its about people.

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Lessons from MotivateMonday | Great Fundraising Organizations (and how to become one!)

Pamela Grow

Invest in the Long Term: Giles Pegram, a UK consultant, found that a $1 million investment in fundraising produced a 12x return over 14 years compared to traditional investments.But nonprofits often demand immediate results, tying fundraising to one-year or three-year budgets. Click here to download the slides. Its about people.

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Fewer restrictions, greater impact: How Candid shifted to unrestricted support 

Candid

At Candid we refer to this as “lightly restricted funding”—funding for the strategic programs we already have planned and budgeted, so that the grants we receive are budget-relieving. One such initiative is Demographics via Candid , a national campaign to address the surge of interest in nonprofit demographic data.

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How Data Can Improve Your Nonprofit’s Response Rates

Blackbaud

In the face of inflationary pressure and constrained budgets largely out of your control, focus on what you can control and ask yourself how you can work smarter. Free Resource Playing the Long Game: Stewardship Toolkit for Nonprofit Organizations Download Now 2. Know your target demographic. Male or female? Young or old?

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How to Manage Your Arts and Cultural Nonprofit’s Revenue Streams in Uncertain Times

Blackbaud

Revenue diversity is a good hedge against the unexpected, but diversity alone is not enough when your budget is threatened or dismantled by outside forces. Use budget scenarios to plan for possible outcomes and contingencies. But creating budget scenarios helps you prepare for both the good and the less optimal outcomes.

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What it takes to be more data driven

Candid

Candid and the Center collaborated to encourage Center members to update their profiles with enough information to earn a Gold Seal, which requires organizations to share demographic information about their leadership. They also received a downloadable file of all the demographic data available in GuideStar. .

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Using Data Effectively in Your Grants Strategy Development

Tech Soup

Demographically, our respondent organizations probably look a lot like your organization. For example, according to our respondents, the federal government is funding only 2 percent of organizations with small budgets. However, a whopping 46 percent of organizations with extra-large budgets received federal awards.