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Building Advocacy

Building Advocacy. A few years ago, my sister came out as bisexual. While this was happening, so were issues with so many other important social

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Year End Strategy
Board Development

Thinking Back; Looking Forward

Last year we had a number of conversations with our community about strategy and operations, exploring questions such as “Are you afraid your funding efforts

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Data on Fundraising
Fundraising

Fundraising decreased 5.6% in many nonprofits … how about yours?

Data is telling us that Fundraising is HOT this year!
“The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP)” has released its results for Q1 2021, and they show that the number of donors grew by a projected 10% from the first quarter of 2021 compared to the first quarter of 2020, while the retention of new donors grew by 13.6% over the same time period, “just two signs that fundraising continues to fare well overall.”
As a reference, you will recall that last year’s 1st Quarter results for 2020 showed a growth of over 7% in fundraising from Q1 2019, so that is TWO years of Q1 growth!
But wait…you say you aren’t seeing these results?

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Case Studies

Fundraising Case Study: Capital Community College Foundation

We conducted a strategic assessment of the Foundation’s philanthropic opportunity by auditing and assessing the Foundation’s internal administration and governance of fund development and the attitude, perception and beliefs about the college and philanthropy with key stakeholders. With that knowledge in hand, we identified strategic opportunities to generate the revenue needed to meet their objectives, and delivered findings for review and discussion by the foundation board that identified and outlined strengths; areas of opportunity for both short term and long term results.

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