NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Embark on a year-round journey with our 2024 Annual Fundraising Calendar, capturing moments that matter. Each page highlights giving moments, holidays, and fundraising opportunities. Join GiveSmart in turning the pages of year-round success!

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar , it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan —and stick to it. Year-End Fundraising Campaign Goals Here’s an example of what a year-end fundraising communications calendar can look like before Dec 1: Want this template to create your own year-end fundraising plan?

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 4, 2024

DonorPerfect's Fundraising Calendar empowers nonprofit heroes! Download the digital version or order your printed calendar now! Get 12 months of tailored inspiration, with practical tips, key dates, self-care, and customizable stickers.

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Professional Grant Writers

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The post Develop a grants calendar to stay on top of deadlines appeared first on Professional Grant Writer. If you’ve written grants for a while, you’ve probably experienced it: that sinking feeling when you realize — or your employer tells you.

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Clairification

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which brings us to year-end fundraising – that crucial time of the calendar year when many nonprofits raise the lion’s share of their contributed income. Today, let’s just focus on your work in making the world smarter, kinder, more just, more caring, more peaceful and more joyful.

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Clairification

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Approach this with a learning mindset, vowing to find at least one thing youll do a bit differently (if not today, then tomorrow; save the idea and put it on your calendar so youre sure to revisit it at the appropriate time). I encourage you to dig through this curated content from across the web and pick one or more doable strategies.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Build a Social Media Campaign Calendar: Get access to a downloadable campaign calendar template tailored for year-end fundraising. Leverage Video to Boost Donations: Understand the power of video storytelling and how to incorporate it into your campaigns.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A fundraising calendar can help you streamline this process so you can raise more with less effort. This is where a fundraising calendar comes in handy. Every organization that relies on fundraising to operate should consider incorporating a fundraising calendar into their yearly plan. Always focus on what works best for you.

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The Fundraising Coach

DECEMBER 31, 2023

One Leader’s Approach to Annual Team Planning “Coffee, Calendars, and Sticky Notes: These are a few of my favorite things!” We call it our “Calendar Planning Day” and the first year I took my team through the exercise it was a little overwhelming. appeared first on FundraisingCoach.com.

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Double the Donation

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Incorporating matching gifts into your nonprofit’s marketing strategy can unlock significant fundraising potential year-round. However, timing is everything when it comes to making a matching gift impact. By aligning your campaigns with key dates, seasons, and donor behaviors, you can ensure your message resonates at just the right moments.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By the 2023 calendar year-end, the Dow was 13.7% Market performance varied significantly during the 18-month period analyzed and documented in the report, resulting in different giving patterns between DAF sponsors that report on a fiscal year ending June 30 versus those that report on a calendar year ending December 31.

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Hands-On Fundraising

JULY 25, 2023

Guest post from Sonia Urlando Virtual events are now normal additions to organizations’ calendars, and that’s great! They offer your donors and members increased convenience, and they offer you increased flexibility and cost-effectiveness. Virtual events allow more people worldwide to attend events.

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GrantNews

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

After you have located grants of interest, the next step is to organize your calendar. Grant-seekers can schedule grant applications by adding the grant of interest to their Grants Calendar. Researching your funder along with applying the other grant-seeking tips you have learned will ensure your success.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

Create an annual grants calendar that shows: Priority funders Application deadlines Target ask amounts Estimated notification dates This transforms you from a grant chaser to a grants strategist. It also helps leadership understand that not all grants are created equal.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

MARCH 17, 2025

Put together a communications calendar to help you with this. It doesnt have to be anything elaborate. A handwritten thank you card or a postcard infographic can be a quick, but effective, way to engage. You also want to focus on quality.

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Blackbaud

MAY 1, 2025

Annual Activity Calendar An annual activity calendar is an indispensable tool for planning and scheduling your fundraising efforts throughout the year. A well-maintained calendar ensures that your strategies are coordinated, preventing missed opportunities and last-minute rushes.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 3, 2025

If you are interested in a grant, add the grant to your Grant Calendar using the calendar icon the grant detail page. Filter the GrantWatch database using the SMART Grant Search tool to locate verified grants for your cause. Building an organized and sustainable grant pipeline is the best way to secure funding.

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GrantNews

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Develop a Social Media Calendar Consistency is key. A Nonprofit Social Media calendar helps you plan content in advance, ensuring you post regularly. Six Key Strategies to Enhance Your Nonprofit Social Media Presence 1. If you post sporadically, followers wont know when to expect new content, and engagement may drop.

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Lightning Fast Grant Writing

MAY 9, 2025

Or calendar invites and stern reminder emails. Theyre just busy. Or skeptical. Or burned out. Or convinced the grant wont be funded anyway, so why bother? You might think the solution is better communication. Or tighter deadlines. Or maybe a little public shaming in the next staff meeting.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 6, 2025

Once they find grants of interest, they can add them to their personalized Grants Calendar, ensuring they never miss an important deadline. The database offers tools and resources that empower grant seekers at every step. Users can take advantage of the SMART Grant Search to locate verified grants.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 11, 2025

Theres nothing like education sessions and meeting your peers at nonprofit sector conferences. Here are the events slated for 2025.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2025

Later on, when your nonprofit has the time and resources, you can expand your website by adding other important pages like the ones below: History Our Team Financials Events/Calendar Resources/Blog Online Shop Your cause may also impact the additional pages you should add or build.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Creating a master calendar of donor touches—mail and email communications. Lena Lieb Director of Major Gifts, Children’s Museum of Houston Set Time on Your Calendars for a Post-mortem Not all steps are active fundraising steps. Create a Master View of Your Fundraising Activities Timing is everything.

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Blackbaud

OCTOBER 23, 2024

He was facing a significant tax liability if he didn’t get this completed before the calendar rolled into January. This allowed him the complete deduction in that calendar year. Needless to say, this created an “all hands-on deck” moment.

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Grant Writer Team

MAY 1, 2025

Establish Your Grant Calendar – After grants of interest are located, the next step is to organize your calendar. Use the GrantWatch Calendar to organize your grant pipeline. Know when the grant opens, the deadline, review period, and expected award date. Set reminders so you never miss a deadline.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

What does a grant consultant cost? The average cost of hiring a full-time grant writer can be upwards of $90,000 including salary and benefits. An effective grant consultant can support a fundraising team in tasks large and small across any stage of the grant application process.

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The Fundraiser Coach

MARCH 30, 2025

Replace “Check-Ins” with “Connection Points” Look at your calendar. May I ask what inspired your gift?” ” That simple connection point can be the start of something much bigger. How many donor meetings, calls, or emails have you noted as a “Check-In” or “Touch Base”?

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 9, 2024

Keep it simple by planning ahead If communicating regularly with your donors sounds overwhelming, plan ahead by using a communications calendar. Fill your calendar with different ways to do that and update it as needed. You should be in touch every one to two weeks, if possible. Otherwise, aim for once a month.

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Capital Campaign Pro

APRIL 21, 2025

Others have quietly vanished from grant calendars. With Congress slow to finalize agency budgets, federal grants that organizations have relied on for years are frozen in place. Some have been delayed. These disruptions are creating sudden and sizable budget holes.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

AUGUST 13, 2024

You can use your communications calendar to incorporate ways to thank your donors, but why not go one step further and create a specific thank you calendar? Remember to try to say thank you at least once a month. Here are some ways to do that.

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GrantNews

MARCH 10, 2025

What’s more, the personalized Grants Calendar ensures they never miss a deadline, while additional resources streamline the funding journey. Grant-seeking business women can employ either a keyword search or scroll through thousands of options in presorted categories like BIPOC , small business , and entrepreneurs and startups.

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GrantNews

APRIL 7, 2025

Plus, with a personalized Grants Calendar and essential resources, staying on top of deadlines has never been easier. Whether searching by keyword or exploring curated categories like BIPOC , small business , and entrepreneurs and startups , the right funding is just a click away.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 21, 2025

Then, add the grants of interest to your Grant Calendar using the calendar icon the grant detail page. To view a foundations mission statement, grant recipients and more use the Foundation Search tool. By navigating a nonprofits 990 reports grant-seekers can quickly determine if a grant is suited for their project.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Send Regular Communications: Consider creating a donor stewardship calendar to map out regular touchpoints, such as newsletters, mission updates, and impact stories. You can also include activities like personalized thank-you calls, holiday greetings, or invitations to webinars and events.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JANUARY 27, 2025

Create a special section in your communications calendar specifically for monthly donors to help you with this. Many nonprofits start out communicating regularly with their monthly donors and then disappear after a couple of months. Always make a point to stay in touch with your donors.

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Clairification

JUNE 1, 2023

Write it down and calendar a time to dig into it a bit more sometime next week. Set aside a little time to explore, and see what you find. What calls to you? Pick at least one thing to click on. What did you learn? What did it make you think about doing differently?

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

MARCH 7, 2024

A communications calendar will help. And not just with appeals. You need to thank donors and share updates. Follow the ask, thank, report, repeat formula. This is essential for good donor retention. So will sending shorter, more frequent updates. Spring forward to reach out to your donors March may be a slower time for you.

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