Fundraising, Fundraising Plan, Goal Setting, Planning
“ A goal without a plan is just a wish.”- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Do you have goals? Maybe your goal is, we need funding. Your response, let’s raise money! You feel like you are on an endless loop. I worked with an executive director once that felt that way. To make...
Fundraising, Fundraising Plan, Getting Started, Goal Setting, Planning, success
“I have my 501 c 3! Now what?” the conversation began. It always begins that way. When a Founder has started a nonprofit but isn’t equipped to move forward, we walk through where they are and where they want to go. In my time walking through the question,...
Fundraising, Getting Started, Management, Planning, success
Many nonprofit Founders find fundraising confusing, hard, and quite honestly there is so much else to do that fundraising takes a backseat until it can’t be ignored. When they finally get serious about fundraising they find they have fallen into a fundraising...
Getting Started, Goal Setting, Planning, success
50% of all Nonprofits fail in the first year. The top reasons cited are 1) lack of infrastructure and 2) lack of funding. Years ago, I was on a new nonprofit’s working board in their first year of operation. I felt the overwhelm of everything that I knew...