Thoughts on Nonprofit Leadership

How to Help Board Members Measure Up board relations evaluation for executive directors

     According to BoardSource, fundraising tops the list of board challenges, as it has since they first started collecting these data in 1994. In multiple studies, fundraising ranks first among board areas needing improvement.

     According to data from an Evelyn...

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Use Evaluation to Improve Your Fundraising Success evaluation

Today, I bring you a taste of what is in my latest book, The Sustainable High ROI Fundraising System.  

 The Power of Assessment

"With a mission to prevent low birth weight in the world’s poorest countries and a history of only four years, this [international maternal and child...

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How to Get Ready for Annual Reporting evaluation time management

     It’s the second week of the new year. It’s time to start gathering the data you need to report on last year’s results. Perhaps you are preparing for a financial audit. Maybe you are putting together an annual report. Or you are possibly getting ready to...

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How to Increase Revenues Without Increasing Costs evaluation

What are your plans to increase revenues in 2022? Execute more fundraising activities? Get more participation in current efforts? Go after completely new donors? You can only do three things to realize higher net income: get more people to give, get current people to give more, and cut costs....

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Three Fundraising Benchmarks to Use with Your Board board relations evaluation for executive directors

A nonprofit board has a fiscal duty to make sure that resources are raised and allocated to meet the organization’s missions. Often, however, boards have unrealistic expectations about how much money can actually be raised. They have no way of knowing, and thus planning for, how many...

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How to Be Proficient at Fundraising evaluation fundraising

 

To be successful at fundraising, you need to learn from previous fundraising experiences, either yours or someone else’s. Look at what your nonprofit has done in the past to try and raise money. If you work for a startup with no fundraising history, learn from your peers. When you...

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Optimizing Your Fundraising Resources evaluation financial management

In Measuring Overall Fundraising Performance we talked about the difference between gross and net income and how net income is a better indicator of fundraising success than gross income. We also discussed influencing the relationship between the amount of donations and number of donors. In Data...

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Evaluating the Success of Your Nonprofit Fundraising Events: Income, Impact, Costs and Benefits evaluation fundraising special events

Golfers have golfed, walkers have walked, dinners have been eaten, awards have been bestowed. How did your agency’s fundraising events fare? Did your events spread your organization’s mission, or did the events just raise funds? Did you raise a lot of money? Really? At what cost,...

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Data That Tells You How Effective You Are With Your Donors evaluation financial management fundraising

In Measuring Overall Fundraising Performance we talked about the two factors that you can influence to bring in the most money: the amount of dollars raised and the number of people giving. Today, we are going to go into more depth about how to influence more people to give and how to influence...

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