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Developing a Tactical Fundraising Calendar for Your Organization

The Fundraising Authority

Your best bet to ensure maximum revenue is to lay out a tactical fundraising calendar as part of your overall fundraising plan. A tactical calendar, as its name suggests, is simply a calendar that shows when your non-profit will employ each of the fundraising tactics it is planning to use in a given year.

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10 Steps to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Content Calendar in 2019

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A new year brings new goals and now is the perfect time to plan your social media content calendar for 2019. A content calendar is the link between posting daily on social media and a social media strategy. A social media content calendar will help you to stay on track by planning ahead what you need to post and when.

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How To: Write Fundraising Auction Item Descriptions

Greater Giving

Auctions are a popular event for nonprofits to put on their fundraising calendars , whether hosted as a standalone affair or part of a larger function, such as a charity gala. For example, let’s say that your auction event attracts an audience of individuals drawn to trips and travel. Suggest a good value (fortune, wealth, reward, etc.)

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Setting work-life boundaries when working from home 

Candid

For example, you might establish a dedicated physical space to work in and prohibit yourself from working outside it (even on your phone). Consider blocking your calendar and/or adding your work hours in your email signature as a gentle reminder of when you’re not at work. Rolling out of bed and getting straight to work saves time.

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Stay Focused, Fundraiser!

The Fundraising Authority

For example, the organization may have a major event each year that is only raising half of what it could raise, but instead of focusing on making that event better, the staff decides to launch a new giving club that will use up all of their available time. Photo Credit: Scott Williams The post Stay Focused, Fundraiser!

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8 Must-Have Tools For Your Fundraising Toolkit

Get Fully Funded

For example, if you work for a food bank, a clear, magnetic vision might be to end hunger in your community. Here’s a great example from Best Friends Animal Society with their BHAG of taking the entire U. For example, Habitat for Humanity might say “we make sure that everyone has a safe, decent, affordable place to live.”

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7 Creative Ways to Show Your Supporters They’re Valued

Pamela Grow

eCardWidget’s guide to charity eCards provides examples of the different occasions nonprofits can send eCards to supporters to show they’re valued: After a donation. For example, early summer when various initiatives are underway may be a time when exciting things are happening at your nonprofit, but staff can stop to chat with donors.

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