Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Your overwhelm is the goal. Invest in the Long Term: Giles Pegram, a UK consultant, found that a $1 million investment in fundraising produced a 12x return over 14 years compared to traditional investments.But nonprofits often demand immediate results, tying fundraising to one-year or three-year budgets. Passive even. Its about people.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 17, 2025

From tight budgets to limited staffing, these hurdles can make even the simplest event feel overwhelming. By understanding the most common obstacles and how to overcome them, your nonprofit can host events that not only meet your goals but also inspire and engage your community. Group discounts can also inspire more people to attend.

Budget

DoJiggy

APRIL 29, 2025

For starters, roller skating is an activity that appeals to a broad audience, cutting across age groups and demographics. Budgeting for Your Roller Skating Fundraiser Effective financial management and budgeting are vital components of organizing a successful roller skating fundraiser.

Fundraising

Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

These grants are essential for organizations that align with the foundation’s mission or strategic goals. Some may prioritize education, health, the arts, or community development, while others may target specific demographic groups or geographic areas. Different foundations may have varying focuses.

Funding

Big Fundraising Ideas

MAY 13, 2025

Schools often face budget constraints, and fundraising can provide critical supplies, updated medical equipment, and professional development for nurses. Like many areas within schools, school nurse offices often face budget constraints. If necessary, break down the goal into smaller, manageable milestones.

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

JULY 30, 2025

Additional built-in features like fundraising goals and a progress bar help drive engagement and conversions. Nonprofit-Branded Donor Experience: All gifts are processed through DonorDrive’s existing events and campaigns, maintaining a fully branded experience with real-time goal trackers and donation forms. rail-container).hide();

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 14, 2025

Even with strong performance data, questions about staffing, budget and planning could stand in the way of getting a texting program off the ground. ‘It’s Not in the Budget.’ ’ If your current budget is tight, consider reallocating funds from underperforming digital channels. setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

Funders acknowledge the power imbalances inherent in traditional grantmaking and seek deeper partnerships built on mutual respect, honesty, and shared goals. Let it help you brainstorm, outline, or rephrase, but always revise with your mission, tone, and goals in mind. Adapt phrasing, but don’t dilute your equity goals.

Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

Include milestones for internal review, feedback, budget revisions, and final polishing. Update DEI framing and metrics Many funders expect clear demographic data and transparent discussion of equity efforts. Choose one key skill to build Target a capacity area that will directly support your year-end goals.

Grant

Greater Giving

JULY 23, 2025

For instance, you might list demographic information for individual donors and points of contact for organizations. Effective data is relevant to your nonprofit’s goals and can be used to generate useful reports. When assessing new data management software, be mindful of your budget and timeline. Engagement history.

Management

Get Fully Funded

JULY 26, 2025

Purpose Zero in on why you’re communicating and set a goal that’s measurable and realistic. Postage Consider the pros and cons of different mailing options and choose one based on your timeline, budget, and status with USPS. Think about demographics (gender, age, income, family makeup, etc.),

Demographics

NonProfit PRO

JULY 18, 2025

Whether it’s a “Dopest Dad” bracket during Father’s Day or a peer-to-peer challenge among departments at a company, the key is to create moments that feel fun, personal and goal-oriented. They keep giving because they want to help their friend “win” or hit the next goal. ” The good news?

Retail

Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

Below are key steps to establish a strong foundation: Define Your Fundraising Goal Clarity is everything. By outlining the demographics and interests of your attendees, you can connect with businesses that see a relevantmarket. Sponsors may have concerns, budget limitations, or other commitments.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JULY 26, 2025

Purpose Zero in on why you’re communicating and set a goal that’s measurable and realistic. Postage Consider the pros and cons of different mailing options and choose one based on your timeline, budget, and status with USPS. Think about demographics (gender, age, income, family makeup, etc.),

Demographics

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 21, 2025

Notion AI references previous applications in your library and suggests content for new grants that align with your history, voice, and goals, because the AI Grants Hub™ connects everything in one integrated system. To support that goal, we’ve created a high-level training that includes templates, tools, and a step-by-step system.

Grant Writing

Center for Major Gifts

JANUARY 22, 2025

Next, relevant donor information that goes beyond basic demographics should be collected. This threshold might be $5,000 for a smaller nonprofit or $100,000 for a large institutionit all depends on your overall budget and fundraising goals.

Metrics

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 24, 2025

The joint funding initiative encourages individual donors to make conditional commitments to pre-vetted projects, and once other donors contribute 70% of a projects budget, the Rapid Response Fund commits to funding the remaining 30%. setForceSafeFrame(true).addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

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DoJiggy

MAY 20, 2025

In this blog, well explore how to calculate how much you can charge for raffle tickets to meet your fundraising goals, along with the best ways to optimize raffle ticket sales via DoJiggys free raffle platform. The goal is to set a price that encourages ticket sales while maximizing fundraising potential.

Goals

Big Fundraising Ideas

APRIL 22, 2025

School fundraising is more than collecting donations or selling products to meet financial goals. The Role of Fundraising inSchools Public schools often face budget constraints in the USA, making fundraisers critical for bridging financial gaps. But fundraising isnt just about meeting monetary goals.

Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2025

The overarching goal of the nonprofit is to identify which communication channels best fit with their universe of stakeholders. Email Marketing This is a fine way to reach mass audiences on a budget. However, people may have vastly different preferences in how, where and when they prefer to be on the receiving end. rail-container).hide();

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As more funders seek to use demographic data to inform their grantmaking decision-making, 125 partners have now joined the Demographics via Candid movement. The process and timing of asking nonprofits for demographic data matters. The process and timing of asking nonprofits for demographic data matters.

Demographics

Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 24, 2024

Common questions in a grant proposal ask about the demographics of the people you serve, how many people you serve, or the impact of your programs. Protip: Grant application data and goals should be based on fiscal years or calendar years (whichever is more appropriate for your organization).

Grant Writing

Candid

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In February 2023, we officially launched Demographics via Candid , an initiative that empowers nonprofits to share their demographic data one time, through the Candid profile, where it can be accessed and reused by funders and other stakeholders across the field.

Demographics

Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Your overwhelm is the goal. Invest in the Long Term: Giles Pegram, a UK consultant, found that a $1 million investment in fundraising produced a 12x return over 14 years compared to traditional investments.But nonprofits often demand immediate results, tying fundraising to one-year or three-year budgets. Passive even. Its about people.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

JULY 22, 2024

Revenue diversity is a good hedge against the unexpected, but diversity alone is not enough when your budget is threatened or dismantled by outside forces. Use budget scenarios to plan for possible outcomes and contingencies. But creating budget scenarios helps you prepare for both the good and the less optimal outcomes.

Management

Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

When the Supreme Court gutted race-conscious admissions last summer and the American Alliance for Equal Rights followed with a lawsuit against the Fearless Fund, some in the philanthropic sector feared that demographic data had become a potential liability. Listening and addressing barriers But now, I’m not worried.

Demographics

Candid

MAY 2, 2022

Candid and the Center collaborated to encourage Center members to update their profiles with enough information to earn a Gold Seal, which requires organizations to share demographic information about their leadership. They also received a downloadable file of all the demographic data available in GuideStar. . Learn more here. .

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A brief description of the project, including your goals and objectives. Project description Your project description should delve deep into the specific activities of your project and how they will benefit your target demographic. Information about your organization and its experience addressing your proposal’s key need or problem.

Proposal

Candid

JULY 26, 2022

Overhead ratio essentially refers to the amount of a nonprofit’s budget that’s dedicated to overhead costs (i.e. Work with a nonprofit accountant to create an ironclad budget and stick to it. The goal should be to add nuance to your nonprofit’s spending, showing supporters that overhead spending is truly important.

Fundraising

Candid

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Currently, over 80,000 organizations have earned a Seal, and over 34,000 have provided demographic data. . Given the surge in demand for this information, Candid decided to incorporate demographic data into the Seals requirements.

Demographics

Just Write Grants

JUNE 30, 2023

Most nonprofit professionals would agree that's child's play compared to managing a nonprofit's grant budget. I'm sharing seven practical and actionable strategies to maximize your grant budget, ensuring each dollar works towards fostering positive transformation. Let's dive in!

Budget

Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Our aim is to give individuals the ability to focus more time and energy on applying new learnings to advance their mission-driven work, without needing to find budget to simply partake in nonprofit training and learning opportunities. Creating a Sound Proposal Budget. Still, we know that our work is just beginning.

Training

CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Think of it as your roadmap to success, guiding your organization not only in compensating for any lost funds but also in meeting your current goals and reaching your long-term destination. To kickstart the planning process, define specific and measurable goals aligned with your organization’s mission.

Calendar

Greater Giving

JULY 5, 2024

Assemble your event planning team and ask yourselves the following questions: What common demographic characteristics do potential attendees have? Event Goals and Objectives Next, consider your event goals and objectives. Your event can cover one or more of these goals. For example, think about their age and interests.

Conference

Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

Facebook allows you to target specific demographics for a minimum of one dollar a day. To optimize your advertising budget, create a marketing strategy to establish the best time for your organization to use ads. Clearly establishing your objectives will help you fine tune your ad’s details to meet your campaign’s goals.

Demographics

Candid

APRIL 11, 2023

Corporate sponsorship is a mutually beneficial relationship wherein a company offers direct financial support, in-kind donations , or skilled volunteer services to support a nonprofit in meeting its fundraising event goals. In this agreement, be sure to align on the following: Goals. A summary of your fundraising event needs.

Fundraising