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Answer these 6 questions to frame your fundraising plan structure

Get Fully Funded

If you can find 10 good grant leads — we can usually find at least 10 hot leads when we do grant research for our clients—then you can fill your grant calendar and keep your grant pipeline full all year long. If you have a donor management system, such as Bloomerang or Little Green Light , you can easily pull a list of donors and prospects.

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. Many mail houses and data systems. I go in and I look at clients who just use e-mail and send out their e-mail.

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Planning a Showstopping Fundraising Event in 10 Steps

OneCause

If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. He or she will also act as the representative for your event, meaning the individual will pitch fundraising ideas to your nonprofit’s board of directors to get the green light to start planning. Is this an annual event? Your event website.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

I’m going to start sipping my green tea, like you said. And I learned a lot about fundraising before the internet, when you just dialed for dollars and sent mailings and had a lot of house parties. . I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . So I’m going to pipe down. She called.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. ” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. Are you interacting with donors daily, weekly, monthly, never?

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Designing Professional Development for the Distracted Learner

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. Collaborative Overload: Collaborative overload is the burnout that results from over use of e-mails, meetings and other collaborative tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. Artist Tiles.