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Planning Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign: 4 Do's & Don'ts

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Your board is already asking questions about whether you’ll hit the projected amount you’ll need to break ground. They generally last between two and three years, sometimes longer, and consist of these phases: Pre-planning - 3-12 months: This is when you’ll establish your campaign’s objectives and goal.

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How to Build Your Capital Campaign Plan

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The easiest place to start is with the practical question of how much your project is going to cost. 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). Making a Budget for Your Plan.

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Interview with Shonali Burke: Analytics Tell Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing?

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. A frequent question Peter is asked about how an organization can become more innovative. “What are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Social Media Measurement and Learning Analytics: How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. Denial: You can’t measure social media! Delight: Check out these charts and graphs! I tested each one.

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15+ Things You’ll Take Away From The Digital Fundraising Summit This Year

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When you ask for a gift, every donor has the same question: “why should I give to you?” If you know how to answer that question in the right way, you’ll unlock the key to strong fundraising. Unfortunately, research shows that not enough of us are answering that question effectively. That’s the big question, isn’t it?

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

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But most importantly, I want to recommend and encourage all of you to chat in your questions and comments throughout the next hour or so. But keep the questions coming. The second one that I commonly see organizations struggle with is rushing through or rushing out of the quiet phase. So don’t be shy.