sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Building knowledge is a social process where we make meaning together. Data is part of the tracking and monitoring innate to grantmaking and can be part of intentional organizational learning processes. However, datamaking has added power because it can beused to deepen strategic social processes of foundation-funded change.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 100

Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

The Two Phases of a Capital Campaign You will be asking folks for a lot of money and support for this project, and it comes in two phases: the quiet phase and the public phase. 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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Campaign Phase Guide Gift 75

CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Picture this: you’ve read our post on running a capital campaign , you’re wildly psyched, and you’re ready to get started! You can always adjust it after your silent phase , and there’s no shame in that. Typically about one year of that time is spent focused exclusively on major donors (this is called the silent phase).

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

Here’s another problem you may encounter: Let’s say you can clearly define what you want to do with your campaign and why, so you jump into the planning process, skipping key steps like a feasibility study and prospect research and cultivation. Don’t underestimate the amount of time you’ll need. Everyone’s excited to get started.

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Campaign Phase Gift Studies 52

Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

But what about the roll up data for those big picture meetings? So picture this, you’re starting out at your brand new job as a major gifts officer at the nonprofit of your dreams. You might even have automated reports, and streamlined processes but how does it look? EveryAction makes that possible (and super easy!).

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Report Data Tools Stats 56

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. It’s typically the first step in our User Research phase, providing a good overview of the visitors to a nonprofit website and how they behave on the site.

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Analytics Design Research Process 37

Candid

MAY 20, 2021

We’ve walked nonprofits of all sizes through the process of determining whether a capital campaign makes sense for them at this particular time. The process simply needs to be distilled down to its essentials and adapted from there. At the Capital Campaign Toolkit , we’ve also thought deeply about these questions over the past year.

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