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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

Get Fully Funded

Nonprofit strategic planning often gets a bad rap, but time spent mapping out your organization’s future can save you from spinning your wheels, being busy but not effective. It’s no wonder nonprofit strategic planning leads to frustration. A strategic plan looks ahead up to five years. What a waste of time!

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Financial Sustainability for Nonprofits: 4 Considerations

Ann Green's Nonprofit

You’ll create strategic plans, brainstorm new projects and programs, and organize campaigns to raise the necessary funds to execute your ideas. One important but sometimes overlooked step in future planning is ensuring proper nonprofit financial management. Corporate philanthropy: Matching gifts, volunteer grants, sponsorships.

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GivingTuesday: 5 Ways To Steward One-Time or First-Time Donors  

The NonProfit Times

GivingTuesday is the day of the year where you find people of all ages and all demographics opening their hearts and their wallets to donate to causes and organizations that are important to them or to find new initiatives to support. This makes donations of any level even more crucial. According to Celeste Flores, director of the U.S.

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Does My Nonprofit Need Donor Retention?

GrantNews

Why Donor Retention Matters for Your Nonprofit Nonprofit donor retention is created by nurturing relationships with donors after their donation has been made. For example, if donors can envision their donation feeding three families or sending a child to camp for a week they will dive deeper into their pockets.

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Aligning Nonprofit Priorities for Success

The Fundraiser Coach

Strategic plans, typically spanning 3, 5, or even 10 years, are developed with input from the board, leadership, and staff. While priorities might shift slightly yearly, having a clear direction prevents mission drift, which can occur when donations are pursued purely to meet financial targets.

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How Many Likes Does Your Nonprofit Social Media Have?

GrantNews

Nonprofit Social Media Grants and In-Kind Donations Website, Social Media, Branding, Creative, and Technical Services : In-kind grants valued at up to $10,000 to nonprofits for marketing and website design services. Funding supports community events that align with the funding source’s strategic plan.

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5 tips to help nonprofits meet unforeseen challenges 

Candid

Fortunately, recognizing the need for diversified funding years ago, we created the Childrens Emergency Fund with unrestricted donations from individual donors, corporate partners, and grantmakers. But the current terminations of USAID grants put our stabilityand, more importantly, our programs for childrenat risk.

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