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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

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Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Yeah, engaging those board members to be fundraising ambassadors. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started?

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Think Big (but Start Small) with Nonprofit Innovation

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The key is to begin, said Linton Myers, Director of Innovation and Incubation at Blackbaud, and keep trying, even if the first attempt is not a slam-dunk. “Risk-averse leaders look at failures as a time loss, resource loss, or budget loss,” Myers said. What is the experience of my staff?

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Engagement Tools to Prepare Your Board for a Capital Campaign

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If you’re reading a blog post with the words “capital campaign” and “board” in the headline, you might be spiraling through questions that are keeping you up at night (hopefully, it’s not 2 a.m.): Board members should take on key campaign leadership roles in partnership with your advancement or development director.

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Meaningful numbers will show the donor you’re doing your job and that builds trust which is the backbone of donor-based fundraising. Letter from your Executive Director or Board chair. Check out the Fundraiser’s Paradox from Bluefrog Fundraising. Good fundraising requires a balance of asks and non-asks.

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The Benefits of One Story: Communicating Financial Information to Your Nonprofit Board

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The members of your nonprofit’s Board of Directors are many things: knowledgeable and successful in their areas of focus, community leaders, passionate about your mission, and important decision-makers for your organization. Include headlines in your graphs and clear section headers or keys that make your information easy to follow.

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