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Anatomy of a successful capital campaign committee meeting

Candid

The nature of capital campaign committee structures. Some committee members may only attend a few meetings, while others may participate through an entire phase of the campaign. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start. Capital campaign committees are designed to have a beginning, middle, and end.

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Design Series: Understanding Audience Needs

Forum One

While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase. I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders.

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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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Who Analyzes the Analytics? (It’s us. We do.)

M+R

GA3) is being phased out effective July 1, 2023, and there are a number of significant changes to the new product. GA4 has been built to provide cross-platform data, so user activity can be tracked across web and app access. If your organization contains more than one internal structure (i.e. Universal Analytics (a.k.a.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Sadly, many current change efforts that try to incorporate knowledge work for social good end up with disjointed or burdensome lists of isolated activities that really aren’t very engaging or valuable. Philanthropy loves “new” things.

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Six Steps On The Leadership Journey Of Development Professionals

Bloomerang

While the demands of each activity may vary, the advancement is a step-by-step process. Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. So, if a leadership role interests you, look no further than the approach you bring to the position.