Greater Giving

JANUARY 11, 2024

Strategic Fundraising Calendar: Mapping Out a Successful Year for Your Nonprofit In the dynamic world of nonprofit fundraising, success often hinges on meticulous planning and execution. Enter Greater Giving’s guide on building a Strategic Fundraising Calendar —your key to unlocking a prosperous 2024.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 10, 2021

Your Goals. Are your goals: to keep your supporters informed about the impact of their gift. Create a communications calendar for the year, one that includes the dates for your fundraising appeals, your monthly giving asks, your annual report, print newsletters, and more. What are the basics of a good nonprofit e-newsletter?

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Fundly

JUNE 20, 2024

Your nonprofit’s donors lead busy lives—managing their careers, maintaining social relationships, and pursuing their personal goals. Set a goal and budget. Decide on a goal that’s specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART). Promote your campaign. Thank all of your donors.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 24, 2024

As we have worked with nonprofits, some of those nonprofits love to delve into data and constantly adjust goals and metrics, and other nonprofits need more guidance about how to structure their goals to be data-driven. Instead, they ask more general questions like “What are your program goals.”

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

While goals are vital to success, SMART fundraising goals help make sure you’re setting goals that you just can’t miss. Can’t miss” goals! In some form or fashion, we’ve all heard how essential goals are. Set a goal! Set a goal! Set a goal! Goals, goals, goals….

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 3, 2024

She’ll share strategies for how to collect stories and use them to meet your goals. MemoryFox is a proud sponsor of the upcoming 2025 Fundraising Calendar. Expect plenty of real-life examples with tactics you can apply to your nonprofit.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 2, 2024

The midpoint of the year is always a good time to see if you’re meeting your fundraising and communications goals. For this post, I’m assuming your fiscal year is the same as the calendar year. You may need to make some changes to your fundraising plan and other goals. Believe it or not, we’re halfway through 2024.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

After all, nonprofits need gifts and donations to sustain them, no matter what their mission or goals might be. Your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy can’t achieve its aims without the proper goals and workload distribution. Create a fundraising calendar for your nonprofit’s development plan.

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re:Charity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

There are less than two months until the year ends (and your annual fundraising calendar wraps up), but. The post Down to the Wire: 5 Tips to Smash Your Year-End Giving Goals appeared first on re: charity. Take a deep breath: we’re in the home stretch of annual fundraising.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 18, 2022

Your fundraising success starts by putting your annual fundraising campaign(s) calendar together. It can be really fun to identify the key dates and event timelines that you will build out to help you reach your nonprofit’s revenue goals. But.then what? What else can you do during the rest of the year?

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GiveSmart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Fall is in the air, and with it comes many opportunities to finish up this calendar year strong. Your fiscal goals are within reach. Whether your answer is yes or no, you should consider adding more fundraising and outreach opportunities to your fall calendar. Take a look at our Annual Fundraising Calendar.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

My calendar and ‘To Do’ list were written in a notebook. Google Calendar has many rivals in the marketplace, but for meeting the scheduling needs of a busy nonprofit, I can’t imagine a more effective tool. When you accept invitations via email, the meeting gets automatically added to your calendar. With a pen.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JANUARY 4, 2024

As with personal New Year’s resolutions, you want your goals to be realistic and attainable. Your goal should be to have donors who support you for a long time. Having a communications calendar will help you with this. I also hope 2023 was a successful year for your nonprofit organization.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 6, 2024

Kwala’s donor gifts guide recommends a few easy gifts for nonprofits: T-Shirts Thermoses Tote bags Calendars Journals For major donors, take the gifts up a notch with appreciation events and donor walls. Assess your audience’s interests, preferences, and goals to determine what appreciation methods are likely to resonate with them.

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GiveSmart

APRIL 17, 2024

The Blueprint By taking the time to plan ahead and get creative, your nonprofit can work toward building a year-round fundraising calendar. If you’re starting from scratch, download GiveSmart’s Annual Fundraising Calendar. These resources could spark some inspiration for your year-round fundraising calendar.

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GiveSmart

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While #GivingTuesday and end-of-year appeals might feel far away, the busiest time of the giving calendar is just around the corner. Donors are paying attention, and many are looking at their spending for the rest of the calendar year. GiveSmart’s #GivingTuesday Success Toolkit is the only thing you’ll need to reach your goals.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 26, 2021

Here are 5 reasons why you should keep virtual fundraising events on your calendar: . With many companies looking toward future goals, being flexible with plans is a necessity. Yet, having a virtual event on calendar, you’re able to secure vendors and create video conference lines in a matter of minutes.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Start with a Social Media Editorial Calendar In order to plan out your social media, you first need to create an editorial calendar. An editorial calendar is basically just a content map or a guide that helps you map out your nonprofit’s content (including social media) for the year. Don’t let this term scare you.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Heres why you should prioritize a thorough review: Measure Performance Track goals like attendance, revenue, and donor engagement. Key Metrics to Evaluate Your Fundraising Events When assessing your events, focus on measurable outcomes that align with your goals.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 16, 2023

Developing and Maintaining a Grant Calendar Grant writing can be a time-consuming process, and it’s essential to stay organized. Successful grant writers develop a grant calendar that outlines their daily and weekly tasks. You can use our approach to researching grants and creating a grant calendar with our Grant Research Guidebook.)

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The Fundraising Coach

AUGUST 24, 2021

The goal is to remind people who have full schedules to keep working on major gifts every week. Donors gave generously even in what we’d come to see as the slow times of the calendar. This issue of the weekly Fundraising Kick seems to have come at the perfect time for subscribers. So I'm sharing it here as well. So be encouraged.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Outline your digital marketing goals. Before you start crafting your messages, it’s important to define clear goals to guide your digital marketing activities. Identify key performance indicators (KPIs) that your team can track to evaluate your progress toward your goal. Achievable. Time-bound.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

You need a goal for your annual fundraising plan. That’s not a goal. That will have an impact on your goal. Make that your goal, at least for now. If 1,000 feels overwhelming, start with a goal of bringing in 10 new donors. Create a calendar of Asks. How much money do we need to raise?” . It’s a wish.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Set campaign goals and objectives. Create a proven communications calendar. Our All New 2023 Year-End & GivingTuesday Fundraising Toolkit will help you: Stand out and get noticed. Define your unique mission and impact. Get people excited to rally for your cause. Optimize your donation form to convert more donors.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

When you’re just starting out, your goal is to make a difference in the world. Make it a goal to either meet one new person or learn more about one of your contacts every day. Schedule Keep a work calendar and update it so it’s always current. Start filling your calendar by scheduling any important meetings or calls.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

With a plan, you’ll: Be more productive because you’ll be working on tasks that move you toward your goals. Set an Impact Goal. What they need is an Impact Goal which is a beacon to guide you through your journey and ward off distractions. An Impact Goal defines the impact your nonprofit will make this year.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

The bottom line: you need a fundraising plan built on the right fundraising plan template — one that outlines goals, actions, and the specific results you want. That means you need a fundraising plan template that meets YOUR needs, plays to YOUR strengths, and helps you reach YOUR goals. No two nonprofits are exactly alike.

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GrantNews

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A business plan is an important part of any successful business because it outlines the goals of that business, how those goals will be met, and the timeline for completion. When you write your business plan above all else, the business plan should be custom to you and your goals. Discover Your Business’s Goals 1.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we get started fundraising in 2023, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan and a clear road map that is designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your current goals and desired destination for your organization. Free downloadable fundraising calendar and goals template.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 6, 2024

The goal was the same then as it is now: Use it to make something work better. Back to that summer of 2020, I had a calendar script running that populated student and teacher Google calendars with their class schedules. Stale” calendars or no calendars? “No It wasn’t great. What is better?

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

With Giving Tuesday and year-end appeals on the horizon, leveraging social media effectively can make all the difference in reaching your fundraising goals. Build a Social Media Campaign Calendar: Get access to a downloadable campaign calendar template tailored for year-end fundraising.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it. By November 1st : Set Goals And Make A Plan. Set a Goal: Hopefully, your nonprofit or charity has a clear, board-approved budget that you follow.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But without a clear idea of where you’re going, all that activity may not actually move you forward toward your goals. But there are going to be many questions to answer in getting to that goal. But food pantries often have many goals beyond just providing food. Eradicating hunger in your community is not a goal.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It’s too easy to drop parts of your imaginary plan, shift others, and back off your goals because you don’t feel like following through. In other words, only add a fundraising activity to your plan because it moves you closer to your goal. Set specific goals. Then set quarterly goals and monthly goals to keep you on track.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 22, 2024

While traditional events still have an important place in the fundraising calendar, activity-based fundraising events now encompass a diverse range of experiences, from yoga to pickleball to kayaking and more. Activity-tracked P2P fundraising events will help you achieve your goal of raising more money while giving new energy to your cause.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It’s a good idea to put together an annual fundraising calendar to include with the plan that details when things are happening and who is responsible for making them happen. More detailed plans may also include contingency plans for when goals aren’t met. The best way to set your new goals is to analyze your previous year.

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Just Write Grants

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Each one offers unique features and caters to different audiences, so understanding these can help you choose the best fit for your goals. Creating a Nonprofit Social Media Strategy Creating a successful social media strategy for your nonprofit begins with clear, measurable goals.

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