Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Allow you to time your appeals for the best results and spread your grant writing throughout the year, instead of cranking out a year’s worth of grants in the fall when you’re also planning your year-end campaign. That approach to grant writing doesn’t work, by the way. Another way to structure a plan is in a calendar format.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. Are you on track to meet your goals?

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. Start planning your communications calendar now. Reach out to local businesses and ask if they would consider sponsoring a matching grant for your campaign or donate in-kind donations.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

AAPI Cuisines Around the World – Highlight the diversity of AAPI food cultures with cooking demos, food samples, or restaurant partnerships. Or present grants and donations to causes they support. Try to get calendar listings and stories placed with mainstream news sources. Use multilingual messaging where appropriate.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. Rachel: Mm-hmm.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. Start planning your communications calendar now. Reach out to local businesses and ask if they would consider sponsoring a matching grant for your campaign or donate in-kind donations.

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Tips Social Media Campaign Goal 97

Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Block off time on your calendar for fundraising planning. For example, if you have “Spring Campaign” on your calendar for April, and you plan to raise $8,000, how will you raise $8,000? Give them sample language to include with their email to friends and family members. Will you have an online campaign?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 20, 2023

Mark off a couple of blocks of time on your calendar to research things like supplies, materials, and equipment online or call local vendors to find out what things cost. Volunteer appreciation Here’s a sample startup budget for a new nonprofit: Tips As you put your budget together, here are some tips that can help you.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Create a broad annual online marketing calendar, which lays out the major marketing initiatives, campaigns, and priorities for the entire year. Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. Review the upcoming month in the annual online marketing calendar. Lists Post (e.g.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

The event also featured two keynotes, one from Afua Bruce and Amy Sample Ward, co-authors of “The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World”; and a second by Lisa Mae Brunson, CEO of Wonder Woman Tech. Cost: 2023 ticket prices have not been released yet.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Grant Writers and Contractors – If you are a full-time writer, then Fundwriter will be a huge timesaver for you. You can let Fundwriter do the heavy-lifting of writing emails, punching up grant proposals, and more. Rapid prototype your ideas and identify what additional information and quotes you will need from the organization.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. We are here to talk about “Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle.”

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Amy Sample Ward from NTEN shared, from their recent Nonprofit Technology Staffing and Investments Report that only 4% of an organization’s budget, on average, was devoted to ‘technology’. Of different holiday calendars even. Amy Sample Ward talked about human connections as the starting point for expectations on technology.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Here is just a sample of representative comments from survey respondents: We completely cut one program and seven staff positions and have placed another program on hold pending additional funding. Mark your calendar now for September 20 to 21. They're making awards to a variety of organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2010

This interview is part of her virtual book tour; check out the full calendar of events. We know storytelling is important for grant applications and fundraising appeals, how is it most useful in marketing? It’s easy for all of us, in both our personal lives and in our professional lives, to take others for granted.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And yet the most charitable giving that happens in all of the calendar year is December 31st. Does the calendar year matter to you? I want you to ask them questions, “Hey, so does the calendar year matter to you in your charitable giving?” ” “Does the calendar year matter to you in your charitable giving?”

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not only that, but with the move to more and more online giving (there was a 32% increase in online revenue in 2020), events like #GivingTuesday have become an even more important part of your fundraising calendar. Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2016

Every time that I talk about how arduous grant writing is, inevitably someone will say something like, “That’s why you should focus on individual donors! Statistically, individual donors provide 72% of the funds for nonprofits!” A third say more than 75% of their revenues come from foundations.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

In other words, you need to get your money from many different sources, not just one awesome foundation, one government grant, or one generous donor. If you rely solely on a government grant, what happens when the agency changes its eligibility criteria and you no longer qualify? No private foundation grants. Cue the sad music.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes?

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Check out more awesome giveaways and highlights from a sampling of our exhibitors below. Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Swag or merch: calendars, printables, planners, notebooks. Same for any grants, regrants, mini-grants, or loans you offer. Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Swag or merch: mugs, shot glasses, swizzle sticks, cozies, towels.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

For example: “acquire 100 new donors this year” or “write 10 grant proposals before March.” Create a grant calendar by January 1 of the top 10 grants we’ll go after this year. Create a grant calendar. Grants: How many grants will we get this year? How much grant income?

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Not chasing those sponsors, not writing another grant. Many of them will do like a little sample screening for you so you can see what it looks before you make the investment. So I have a sample donation reply card on the Resource page. We are going to do one on foundations here from grant research. Location number two.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Share mockups of marketing materials and a sample calendar. Challenge grant: A challenge grant is different from a matching gift, but the language is similar. For example, let’s say you land a six-figure challenge grant for a capital project. Every dollar they give will be doubled. It’s that simple!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. Mozilla Week of Service Begins September 14th: Mark your calendars and sign up to offer your geek skills to your local community for a service project this week.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Although my fiscal year was in October, the calendar year worked and I would do it in January. You have to give board members scripts, you have to give them social media posts, you have to give them sample letters and emails. You have to equip them, you have to provide board education, you have to share client stories. ” Right?

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

Traditional fundraising like grant writing and major donor relations require significant investments of time and effort. If you’d like to add a peer-to-peer initiative to your fundraising calendar, but don’t have the time or resources for a full, organization-run campaign, consider creating opportunities for DIY fundraisers.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

Traditional fundraising like grant writing and major donor relations require significant investments of time and effort. If you’d like to add a peer-to-peer initiative to your fundraising calendar, but don’t have the time or resources for a full, organization-run campaign, consider creating opportunities for DIY fundraisers.

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Fundraising Illinois Campaign Raise 69

Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So when we talk about wasting time, here’s a sample of the numbers that I see with folks in terms of how they’re spending their time. You need to do this type of event now, or you need to do this type of activity or this type of programming or shift your programming this way to get this foundation grant.”

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So when we talk about wasting time, here’s a sample of the numbers that I see with folks in terms of how they’re spending their time. You need to do this type of event now, or you need to do this type of activity or this type of programming or shift your programming this way to get this foundation grant.”

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. ” And Lynn Grant, a great fundraiser working with Nature Conservancy in Canada, was going into a corporate office a number of years ago, they were going to ask for a quarter of a million dollars.

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