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The Beginner’s Guide to Running Your First Capital Campaign

Get Fully Funded

It’s time to ask yourself some tough questions: Does your nonprofit have the structure in place to manage your growth and the additional work that will come with your realized dream of a new building? The quiet phase is the first part of the campaign and involves meeting face-to-face with your top prospects to make individual requests.

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Planning Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign: 4 Do's & Don'ts

Achieve

Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance. They generally last between two and three years, sometimes longer, and consist of these phases: Pre-planning - 3-12 months: This is when you’ll establish your campaign’s objectives and goal. What should you do instead?

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Change Management: 3 Steps to Make Change a Reality at Your Nonprofit

Saleforce Nonprofit

When making a technology change, change management is a process of applying a structured approach to transition from the old system to the new system. It can even increase overall job satisfaction for staff members because they are playing an active part in the change instead of feeling like the change is simply happening to them.

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6 Website Elements to Include to Drive Year-Round Donations

Greater Giving

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. Incorporate these six elements into your website to see better fundraising results: 1. Remember, the most effective nonprofit websites prioritize donors’ preferences and motivations in their design and structure. Motivational imagery.

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Accessibility Goals: Moving Past Compliance

Forum One

Recently we’ve been able to do the opposite—prioritize inclusion from the planning stages—and the results are dramatic. With the Virginia Department of Education’s I’m Determined initiative, we brought in key audiences at a discovery and design phase, much earlier than traditional audience testing would take place. Focus on content.

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Lead Gift Committees: Success with High-Powered Volunteers

Top Nonprofits

When people are actively involved in your campaign, more of them will give to your campaign and they will give more generously. Lead Gift Committees often meet at least every month during the Quiet Phase of the campaign , and sometimes more often. participate actively in the discussion. And do another three at your next meeting.

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Why is real teamwork so rare?

ASU Lodestar Center

The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. This structure is derived from the industrial age when mass production transformed the workplace. It has been the foundation of organizational structure for the last 100 years. The result is not satisfactory. Most organizations are hierarchical.