Your nonprofit likely has many goals it wants to accomplish, ranging in priority and timeline. Some of these goals may be broad and worldly, while others are not. However, for you to lay a path to accomplish your goals, your nonprofit should follow a similar structure for writing each of your goals.
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Being a one-person nonprofit fundraising shop is a bit like butter spread over too much toast. It covers the bread but so thinly that the taste is barely there. Here is how to make it more manageable.
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As you look at your fundraising program, and priorities, always keep a focus on what you can do with excellence versus what has to get done — and when. Don’t be afraid to make tough calls — it may even have you thinking of new and better ways to accomplish your goals.
Read MoreHere’s to a few quiet days before we plunge headlong into the events, mailings, website revisions, online campaigns, planned-giving proposals, capital campaigns, personal visits and all the other things that will fill our lives as fundraisers in 2015.
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We believe that managers actually need to manage their major-gifts officers. Sadly, the state of management in the nonprofit sector is sorely lacking. It’s just very rare to come across a good manager who really knows how to develop people.
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Do you have a written operational plan to follow for you and your team? Having a plan helps you see and evaluate the current road map already in place. A plan review helps you determine what resources your organization needs and helps you set goals and objectives for the future. Having said this, you must be experienced with plans and have a vision for what the “master” plan should be, or you may be missing the boat. In this case, mentors, peers or consultants can provide templates for you to use.
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Allow yourself the essential luxury of thinking longer term. Not day to day — but month by month, year-end and even two to three years out for you and your organization.
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Put yourself in the other person’s shoes, and you may enhance your perception and improve your skills as a manager!
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Your job is to change the culture and mind-set in your organization that a special event is everyone’s responsibility. If you increase the importance of a special event in your organization, other positive results will follow!
Read MoreAmong the big-picture findings in the Giving USA report, there are things that can guide your fundraising strategy for the next several months.
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