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4 Quick Tips to Remember When Planning an Advocacy Campaign

Top Nonprofits

If you’ve ever led an advocacy campaign, you know that it has an incredible number of moving pieces. That’s why planning is the most important stage in your advocacy campaign. Throughout the planning and action stages of your advocacy campaign, you’ll collect a ton of data. Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline.

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Q&A: Do capital campaigns make sense in a time of crisis?

Candid

We’ve walked nonprofits of all sizes through the process of determining whether a capital campaign makes sense for them at this particular time. There’s no reason why organizations can’t use the key principles of capital campaign fundraising to reach smaller goals over shorter periods of time. In many cases, they do.

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Becoming a Data-Driven Association

Nucleus

With Nucleus, data is pulled in near real-time from all your critical systems and aggregated in a modern data lake – this comprehensive and always-current data can then be used to provide insights throughout the organization. Data flows like a river through any organization. in 2012 to 65.0%

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.” Trust is the oxygen of any successful collaboration, even more than money, time, or mission. So where should nonprofit leaders begin?

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The Nonprofit Marketing Funnel: Up Your Comms Impact with This Strategy

Qgiv

It’s the foundation that enables you to articulate your organization’s mission and channel the inspiring stories of those whom you’ve helped. Now is the time to fine tune to really help your supporters be more effective. Take action to make it easier for your community to volunteer and do advocacy work. About Elevation.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering an Analytical Approach to Strategy and Planning

Bloomerang

The same is true for ongoing vs. first-time donors. Once you have those numbers, clearly articulate your goals and identify what you need to meet your goals. How much food do you need to feed them, and within what time period? . Do this overall and also for first-time and ongoing donors. Number of donors who renewed.

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