The Fundraising Coach

DECEMBER 31, 2023

One Leader’s Approach to Annual Team Planning “Coffee, Calendars, and Sticky Notes: These are a few of my favorite things!” We call it our “Calendar Planning Day” and the first year I took my team through the exercise it was a little overwhelming. After all, there are only so many hours in a day!

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Qgiv

MAY 3, 2023

Fundraising calendars help set your nonprofit up for success for the entire year. Planning ahead ensures you’ll stay organized and keeps you on track with your goals. A fundraising calendar enables you to keep your goals, campaigns, strategies, and due dates all in one place that your whole team has access to.

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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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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

But mark the rest of your days on your calendar at the beginning of the year, just like you mark your campaigns and events. Once you have the plan in place, you have a road map to get you to your goal by the end of the year. The key to being able to take time off without adding to your stress is to plan it out. . Here in the U.S.,

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Candid

MAY 2, 2022

The goal—supporting nonprofit transparency, especially through more comprehensive data around board and staff demographics, organizational structure, and DEI practices—underscores a lot of what the Center encourages through their own programs and training. . Turns out, it was a very reasonable process. .

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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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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. Read our article here about our 2023 successes. Ultimately, these constant updates aren’t really even necessary.

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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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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). Last year, in the U.S. billion to charitable causes. Promote your campaign.

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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. Click here to download the slides from this September 30, 2024 MotivateMonday presentation.

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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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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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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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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. How many to-do lists?

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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. But, don’t be fooled! Saving bears?

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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. However, you can’t do it all on your own. Achievable.

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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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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 keep at it.

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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. Drafting a fundraising plan can be intimidating, especially if it’s your first time and you have no fundraising plan structure. I’ve been there. And that takes time.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

A nonprofit fundraising plan is a road map designed to help you raise the money you need to achieve your goals. A strategic fundraising plan is intended to keep you on track toward your fundraising goals by using your organizations resources as effectively and efficiently as possible while keeping aligned with your overall mission and vision.

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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 hope you had a nice holiday. My vacation went by way too quickly. Do this after every fundraising campaign.

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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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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. If you are trying to fundraise without an annual fundraising plan, you are trying to bake a pie with a lot of ingredients but no recipe. Can you do it? But… that either requires a good memory or a lot of guesswork. Or enough data.

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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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MAY 8, 2023

When you’re just starting out, your goal is to make a difference in the world. But to do that, you need to figure out how to grow your nonprofit. You’ve got so much to do as you launch your nonprofit. There are things like: An office to set up. Systems to put in place. A website to build. Money to raise. Social media to manage.

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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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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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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Set campaign goals and objectives. Create a proven communications calendar. The Challenge Post-pandemic fatigue and economic uncertainty have caused a 10.5% dip in donations. Coupled with a saturated market, traditional approaches just aren’t cutting it anymore. The Solution Embrace the donor-centric revolution.

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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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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Set campaign goals and objectives. Create a proven communications calendar. Year-End has the potential for large returns, with 30% of annual charitable giving taking place in December alone – but what about the philanthropic challenges to contend with? Define your unique mission and impact. Get people excited to rally for your cause.

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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. 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. But for most people, planning for fundraising isn’t easy.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 6, 2024

You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do. It provides the ultimate tool to bring all your school software into one system and allows everything to talk to each other. This is the dream. Give yourself a pat on the back! You did it!

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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. When running a nonprofit, there’s so much to do and you’re on the go from morning ’til night. Yuck, right? What a waste of time!

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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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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. It's perfect for sharing compelling photos and videos.

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The Fundraiser Coach

MAY 8, 2024

Reflect and Write : Reflect on the week — what goals did you meet, and what tasks are rolling over into next week? Time for Deep Work on projects or tasks that require uninterrupted time deserve to have a 1-2 hour block of time from your calendar when needed. It doesn't have to be that way! Make a list.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It always falls on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving— mark your calendars, because GivingTuesday for 2021 is November 30th. Set a goal. GivingTuesday campaigns with clear goals raise more funds, and many nonprofits find that those announced goals are not just met, but exceeded. And it works!

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