Strategic Planning

Fundraisers find themselves emerging from two challenging years and preparing for the possible recession in the year ahead. On the final day of the NonProfit POWER conference, Bill Stanczykiewicz of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy opened the final day of the event with his keynote, “Current Trends in Fundraising.” His takeaways were surprising.

Is your board just not getting it? If we need our board members to be more engaged, we need to engage them. Here’s a plan to do so.

Trends in evaluation are worth paying attention to. They may not take over your social media feed with witty memes or become the latest office buzz, but they are profoundly important for nonprofits.

Understanding themes and trends offers numerous benefits to you as a leader since they can help inform decisions and strategies.

Here are several reasons why it’s a bad idea to use year-end giving as a significant fundraising strategy.

Strategic plans set organizational direction, but just as important as determining organizational direction is determining the direction of the planning process itself. It is critical to approach your strategic planning process with the same level of care and attention with which you want to approach the final plan. 

Now is the perfect opportunity for nonprofits to review their strategic plans and discern how to kickstart the plan back into action.

Nonprofit leaders can tap into the knowledge of those we serve and leverage their insight and experiences to fuel our mission.

Here is one methodology that can be used to determine what the best spending policy may be for your organization.

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