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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.): Is our board on track for the public phase? Did we set appropriate capital campaign goals with our board?

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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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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

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And the headline was that this $471 billion was a new record for charitable giving in the United States. And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. So for those of you who guessed B, you are correct.