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Answer these 6 questions to frame your fundraising plan structure

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Drafting a fundraising plan can be intimidating, especially if it’s your first time and you have no fundraising plan structure. Your answers will give your fundraising plan structure and allow you to move forward with this important task. In other words, you have no format, no template, and no idea where to start. I’ve been there.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. Be clear about accountability.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

.orgSource

Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. Be clear about accountability.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

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For organizational leaders, deputizing—and supporting—the right person at your organization will return huge dividends in the form of clean, organized, and well-documented data structures. There are grassroots groups on social media, listservs, and informal peer groups for users of various Blackbaud products.

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Mapping the Donor Engagement Cycle: A Visual Guide to Stronger Connections

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You taper off the most expensive and time-consuming recognition channels to the smallest group of donors. An organization could segment their donor data to follow that structure, narrowing the criteria as a donor gives more. Donor recognition should start with a base thank-you email for every donation regardless of size.

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Navigating the Conundrum of Auxiliaries

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They go by many different names – volunteer councils, auxiliaries, “friends” groups, and more – but regardless of their varied titles, such groups share a great deal. Mapping the Change. Lessons from the Field. In recent years, we have conducted surveys and interviews at institutions with longstanding volunteer councils.

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Flow within Structure: Advice for a Young Artist

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Mindy asked a group of artists and writers to write letters to M, which Mindy compiled into a book for her. is to be like a stream: flow within a structure. Your creative goals and plans may be crystal clear and mapped out, but any number of challenges (e.g. On the other hand, we live in particularly uncertain times.

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