Tips and articles for non-profit leaders and board members on non-profit funding, income, strategy, planning, grants and facilitation. For additional resources, read the blog , Advancing the Non-Profit Sector, written by Karen and several other consultants who specialize in non-profit growth.
Money and Fundraising
- Increase Your Success With Bequests New!
- Get Inside Their Heads, Donors, Customers, and Other Funders New!
- Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? Getting Strategic About Membership New!
- Don’t Do This Alone! Creating a Culture of Philanthropy New!
- Have You Had Enough? Ending Government Funding Tyranny
- You Can Find the Money Your Nonprofit Needs
- To Pursue or Not Pursue Funding: That is The Question
- 14 Ways to Form Donor Relationships in 10 Minutes or Less
- More Money Next Year, Part I
- More Money Next Year, Part II
- More Money This Year, Part III, The Prize
- 7 Tips for Earning Revenue With Your Mission
- 20 Expense Items to Consider When Creating a Budget
- How Will We Pay for This? 14 Ways to Obtain Income
- Budget Categories – A List to Help With Grant and Program Planning
- Where Do Non-Profits Derive Funding? Key!
- Where Do Non-Profits Except Healthcare Derive Funding?
- 7 Lessons to Increase Fundraising Success
- Can Your Non-Profit Survive and Thrive? A Quick Test
- More Than a Wish, Creating Successful Wish Lists
- Eleven Ways to Publicize Your Wish List
- Estimating Unknown Staff Expenses for New Programs
- The Gift Recognition Chart: Meaningful Ways to Thank
- Cost Allocation for Your Programs -Chart
- Site Visits: Karen’s Top Dozen Tips on Hosting Donors
- More Than Money Shopping Spree: Get The Correct Price
- Setting Realistic Expectations About Income
- Don’t Set Resolutions to Increase Your Non-Profit Funding
- Want Money? Karen’s Basic Tool Kit
- Can Your Organization Obtain More Income? The 7 Sources Key!
- Self-Test: Are Your Income Projections Realistic?
- What Donors Want to Know About You
Board Development
- Create the Board of Your Dreams
- Fly Higher: Karen’s Top Ten Ways to Motivate Board Giving
- Mission: Possible, Six Essential Lessons to Create Board Support
- Guilty as Charged: Prove Your Board Supports Your Organization Key!
- Board Support Chart
- Month-by-Month Strategic Thinking
- Can You Make Money With Your Mission? What Your Board Needs to Know Key!
- Waiting for Super Donor? What Your Board Needs to Know about Individual Donations
- Reason for Hope? What Your Board Needs to Know about Government Funding
- How to Succeed In Business, What Leaders Need to Know About Corporate Funding
- Is it Magic? Funding from Foundations and Other Organizations
- Ensure the Availability of Sufficient Resources (Audio)
- Better than Leftovers: Other Income
- A Gift by Another Name: In-kind Income
- How to Develop a Great Mission Statement
- Your Future. At What Are You Really, Really Good?
- Karen’s Ten Concepts on How To Save a Program
- Non-Profit Strategies, Not “Let’s Make a Deal“
- Two Become One: Mergers, Etc.
- Spacey, Non-Profit Space Solutions
Team Building
- Conquer 3 Money Hazards that Block Decision Making
- Why and How to Design Meeting Openers
- Items to Bring to Your Next Group Meeting
- How a Facilitator Helps Teams Succeed
- New Partnership Tool: Setting Expectations
- Partnership Evaluation
- How to Create a Presentation Notebook
- Identifying New Supporters: A Helpful Tool Key!
- Using the Value of Your Partnerships
- Make This Meeting Different Planning Document
- 1 to 10 What Merger Looks Like
- Merger Checklist New!
Strategies to Build World Class Organizations
- The Ultimate Key to Nonprofit Success: Sacred Essentials
- The Six Laws of Successful Big Innovations
- How First Class Are Your Operations?
- 23 Free* and Fun Ways to Make Your Mission Visible
- Must You Settle for Junk? 7 Justifications for High Quality Items
- 9 Reasons World-Class Programs Are MUSTS Key!
- Karen’s Ten Steps to Create a World-Class Program Key!
- Twelve Tickets to Healthy Nonprofit Esteem
- The Shocking Truth About Strategic Planning
Growing as a Leader
- Mastering Self-Motivation: Help Your Nonprofit Reach Its Wildest Dream New!
- Need to Make a Tough Decision?
- How to Develop Exceptional Events
- How to Be More Successful with Your Brainstorming
- Identify Your Best Gifts
- 10 Time Management Tips for Elephant-Sized Projects
- 20 Ways to Say Thanks
- Ready or Not? Time Management Tool
- Time Management Tips for Your Holidays
- Event Follow-Up to Keep You Fired-Up
- Davis’ Leadership Activities for Growth
- Karen’s Dozen Tips to Enhance Accountability
- Volunteering As a Non-Profit Leader
- Tracking Worksheet for Donor Development
Grant-Links: Grant Writing
- Getting Current Information to Shape Your Grant Application
- Never Miss a Grant Deadline Again
- How Much? Setting a Grant Request Size
- Your Grant’s Background Section: 15 Points to Include
- How to Prepare for Last Minute Grant Opportunities
- How to Review a Draft Grant
- Sample Letter of Intent
- Extreme Questions for Very Competitive Proposals
- Outcome Measurements Cheat Sheet
- 10 Common and Avoidable Grant Project Budget Errors
- Stand Out, Help Your Grants Make Great 1st Impressions
- Turning Words Into Money, Volunteering to Write Grants
- Prove It! How to Document Your Match
Grant-Links: Grant Funding
- How Can You Tell if Your Organization is Ready to Apply for a Grant?
- Competitive Opportunities – Who Gets Funded?
- Sample Grant Management Form
- An Unfunded Request is an Opportunity to. . .
- A Dozen Positive Responses to a Grant No
- Your Best Grant Sources the Top Eight for Most Non-Profits Key!
- 20 Ways to Enhance Relationships with New Grant Donors
- Grant Tracking Chart
- Is It Worth It? How to Identify Valuable Grant Sources
Sustainability
- Sustainability Questions to Explore Before You Seek the Grant
- Answering the Dreaded Future Funding Grant Question
- When to Begin Your Sustainability Plans
- Including Individual Fundraising Costs in Grants
- How to Create Grants to Support Individual Fundraising
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