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My Nonprofit Clients Use a Financing Plan to Raise Money
My unpopular opinion: You don’t need a long narrative-based Fundraising Plan to raise money.
My clients? They use a Financing Plan.
Nonprofit Fundraising—Spending Money on the Right Things to Raise to Budget
90% of RAISING to budget every year is about SPENDING money on the right things.
If you’re NOT consistently spending on the resources you need to reach or exceed your budget every year, it’s likely you’re NOT growing at the pace you’d like.
Donor Competition For Nonprofit Organizations & What To Do About It
A prospective client came to me last year unsure if I’d be able to help them…afterall, they felt the competition for dollars in their mid-sized city was fierce…
Will Nonprofit Donors Give in this Economy?
Too many fundraisers use “the stock market” as an excuse NOT to ask donors for money. “We can’t ask in this economy!” . . .
Well…Let’s look at that from another perspective.
Nonprofit Leaders: Do your donors respond to your emails?
When I started my business 13 years ago I would have never guessed I’d spend so much time on….
👉 Drafting emails that donors actually respond to.
Nonprofit Leaders: Are you aggressively scaling or moderately growing your revenue?
What are the nonprofit leaders doing whose orgs scale at a higher rate doing differently? . . .
I've witnessed a few distinct themes in the 13 years of my biz. These themes separate those orgs that were aggressively scaling vs. moderately growing.
Your Nonprofit’s Location Has Very Little Bearing on Your Fundraising Success
A funny conversation I have every few months . . .
(For context, I serve orgs all over the country but I run my biz out of Chicagoland.)
“Sherry, our board wants us to work with ‘a local consultant’ who knows the donors in our market”. Followed by . . .
What’s Nonprofit Fundraising Got To Do with Restaurants?
I’m not usually in the business of telling nonprofit leaders to read a restaurant book. And yet that's what I've done in this month's Philanthropy.org article!
Your Donors Don’t Always Know Your Nonprofit Needs Money
There’s a comment I make multiple times a day. It often gets an odd side-eye back at me. And it's true for all sized organizations - my $2M annual budget orgs and my $100M annual budget orgs . . .
In Nonprofit Fundraising, starting something is easy but stopping something is hard.
Do you know what I notice in nonprofit fundraising . . .
Starting something is easy.
Stopping something is hard.
Nonprofit Fundraising—Spending Money to Raise More Money
Too many nonprofits are eager to tell me what they’d SAVE money for. But, too many struggle to articulate what they’d eagerly SPEND money on.
Fundraising Events—Are Your Nonprofit Donors Giving Their Best Gifts to Your Organization?
On multiple occasions these last few weeks, I’ve heard something like this: “My board member wants to throw a fundraising event but they want it to be FUN for their networks they’re inviting.”
Now, I'm NOT suggesting that we should plan boring fundraising events . . .
Nonprofit Leaders: Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
My colleague, Rudy Flesher, shared this post from Candid earlier this week & the stat DID NOT surprise me one bit. That stat?
“Less than one third of the public knew that nonprofits lost government grant funding, and 36% of them said if they'd known they would have donated more.”