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How to Conduct a Nonprofit SWOT Analysis: A Complete Guide

DipJar

In this process, it can be particularly helpful to conduct a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning technique that involves evaluating your organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Marketing strategy Your marketing approach can also benefit from a strategic analysis.

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6 Ways to Prepare Your Communications for Successful End-of-Year Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This analysis can help guide you towards what best engages your target audiences. 2) Review Your Goals. Review your end-of-year fundraising goals, but think deeper. Review your target audiences , not just focusing on their habits, but what motivates them to engage with your organization in the first place.

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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

sgEngage

In early 2022, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy began an organization-wide grants change management review. The goal was to become better grantmakers by completing a review of our practices, processes and forms. It provides space for training, testing, and ensuring that employees are equipped to adapt to the new process.

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Getting started with AI-driven fundraising: crash course

Candid

This quick guide will review the essentials. Artificial intelligence works through machine learning, which involves the discovery and analysis of deep patterns in datasets. These algorithms are continually refined over time as more data is generated for analysis. Data analysis for planning campaigns is the perfect example.

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3 Tips to Prepare Your Nonprofit’s Team for AI Fundraising

Greater Giving

Predictive analysis, chatbots , and automation have the power to increase fundraising capacity. You should also host regular training sessions with your team members to review: Ethical considerations: AI tools have shortcomings. However, implementing AI can be a daunting task, especially for teams without prior experience in the field.

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How to Right-Size Impact Management for Your Organization

Saleforce Nonprofit

How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? Mobile Pathways implemented a weekly all-staff meeting to review impact data, and ensured all their strategic program decisions were based on this evidence collected daily. How closely should they track those changes? In other situations, your timeframe may be longer.

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Book Review: The Nonprofit Business Plan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A business plan tests the proposition in the vision and based on research determines whether it is economically and operationally viable. He said that strategic plan is more wishful thinking compared to a business plan that chocked with analysis. Structure: How will they estimate, describe and test the operational structure?

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