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

Achieve

You’re ready to take your nonprofit to the next level, scale up its capacity, and make an even bigger impact in your community. 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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The Audiences of a Capital Campaign: Who to Target and When

Achieve

Traditionally, capital campaigns are broken down into seven phases: Pre-Campaign Planning. Testing your initial plans through stakeholder interviews. The Quiet Phase. Announcing your campaign to the broader community to celebrate and explain its purpose. The Public Phase. Feasibility Study. Campaign Planning.

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Best Practices for a Stress-Free Fund Accounting System Implementation

sgEngage

For most organizations, the ideal implementation timeline is around 90 days, split more or less evenly among three phases: Preparation and planning (days 1–30). Testing and go-live (days 60–90). The planning stage is also a great time to begin the training curriculum, so people know how to use the system when it comes time to test.

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10 Strategies for Segmenting Donors for Communication

Greater Giving

A strong donor segmentation is much more than just breaking up your donor list into the basic demographic groups that define your community by age, location, or gender. When donors become part of your community, they typically move through five phases of involvement, landing on the one that best suits their level of commitment.

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Design by the User, with Inspiration from New York Fashion Week

Forum One

Designers from around the world presented work inspired by issues in their community and the world. In the discovery phase, two research methods we use are “netnography” and user focus groups. Beyond the discovery phase, we push to include the user in our multifaceted design approach. The show was astounding.

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Citizen Philanthropy: Delivering Impactful Pro Bono Support From Anywhere

Saleforce Nonprofit

Bringing skilled volunteers together in person with passionate and integrated local organisations around the world was how V2I worked towards their mission of helping global communities break the cycle of poverty. Upon further refinement, we crafted a phased approach for implementation to support V2I in their execution.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Does Sharing A Campaign’s Fundraising Goal Drive More Donations?

Bloomerang

Here’s how you can figure out some of those variables: Test for them. This is the reason many capital campaigns don’t go to the “public phase” until they’ve raised the lion’s share of their goal through individual major gifts. . After all, there are multiple ways to implement one strategy. . – Charity Clairity.

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