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The Beginner’s Guide to Running Your First Capital Campaign

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It’s time to ask yourself some tough questions: Does your nonprofit have the structure in place to manage your growth and the additional work that will come with your realized dream of a new building? 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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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. However, in the push towards impact, philanthropy has adopted a laundry list of activities—landscape scans, focus groups, case studies, logic models—to help in figuring out what is important to know to “do good” better.

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The Five Building Blocks of a Digital Advocacy Campaign, Part 1: Tell an Impactful Story

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Organizations can tap into the power of personal story by uplifting the voices in their network. We call this process of information-gathering the “discovery” phase. The goal of the discovery phase is to understand what your audience cares about, what their values are, and what are their anxieties or concerns. .

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Stereotypes Aside, Millennials Are Acting for Change

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In partnership with the Case Foundation, Achieve just published findings from the most recent research phase of this project, which is our ninth annual study of millennial cause behaviors and motivations. Organizations must ask themselves, Do we have the people and structure in place to use the voice of this generation for good?

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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The needs assessment is a learning and listening phase. Foundation Group can be a huge help in forming your new nonprofit. You also need to build a structure that will enable you to bring in the money you need to operate. You also need to build a structure that will enable you to bring in the money you need to operate.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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The Nonprofit Fundraising Strategic Plan Guide

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It should contain purposeful actions that aim to achieve specific fundraising goals from a diversified group of sources, and be data-driven from start to finish. Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. One last thing.

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