Is It Time to Trash Your Fundraising Plan?

For nonprofit leaders, summer is a great time to take a hard look at how you bring money in the door and figure out a more sustainable way to do so. It’s time to trash your ineffective fundraising plan. A financing plan, unlike a traditional fundraising plan, is an integrated, thoughtful and strategic way to help a nonprofit raise enough money to achieve its programmatic and organizational goals. Instead of asking, “How much can we accomplish with what we can raise?" you should ask, “How much should we raise to accomplish our goals?”