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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: The Search and Selection

Bloomerang

Formal professional groups – These exist for many specialties such as the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Grant Professionals Association, which have local chapters and a national office. . Block enough time on your calendar to complete this process in weeks (not months). Pro tip: Reflect on your existing network.

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Brilliant Careers Are Built With Bold Moves

Eric Jacobsen Blog

try flipping the script and asking: “How do I optimize?” Look at your “Outlook equity” or “calendar equity” and see how you can adjust how you spend your time. We have a choice of where to invest those dollars – our time – and we want to invest them in the activities and tasks that produce the most returns.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. And when you are kicking off your fiscal year or your calendar year, set those expectations high so people know what they can do to be helpful. We’ll craft talking points and you know, do you have an event calendar or prospect list?

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

Although my fiscal year was in October, the calendar year worked and I would do it in January. ” You’re going to provide your board members with the script. ” To each board member, have the script, they pick up their cell phones and they make those calls. Let’s sit down and talk about a script.

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[VIDEO] How to Overcome Fear, Intimidation and Imposter Syndrome to Raise More Money

Bloomerang

But I found this has been a total game-changer for me, not only in terms of my own self-care, but in my business is just being really purposeful about actually scheduling into my calendar my top priorities. . But I signed up for a weekend-long virtual meditation retreat, and I blocked that out into my calendar. I was so scared.

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[VIDEO] You’ve Been Let Go From Your Nonprofit Job – Now What?

Bloomerang

Talk to each other, introduce yourself in the chat if you haven’t already because we will save some time for some Q&A once we kind of get through our scripted questions. That’s when I made that switch, I closed the book on one chapter and I said, “Okay. You can also tweet us. Opening up a new book.

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