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To do more we need help. One way to obtain help is to partner with others. In this audio, you will learn how to:

• Attract and retain more partners and donors
• Improve the quality of your relationships with partners
• Reduce misunderstandings, wasted time, money and effort

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Strategic thinking and planning are essential to organization success, yet they are often done poorly. Help your organization thrive with strong strategy. You will learn:

• The DOOR process to explore all your possible futures
• How and why to have more than just a retreat
• Six sinkholes to avoid

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Time is our most important resource. This session helps you use it better. We look at why time management is different in non-profit organizations, time management fundamentals and how to raise the bar of your personal time management. Save at least 15 minutes a day forever!

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New ideas are important, but if you don’t use them wisely even the best fall short of their potential. In this CD, you will learn the Three-Step Get Wise Strategy. With the Strategy you will discover successful and wise ways to implement your best ideas. At the same time, the Strategy helps you to gather the knowledge you need to successfully obtain funding from individuals, foundations, corporations, and government agencies.

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Learn why non-profit organizations are so vulnerable to myths. Find out five common money myths that lurk in and around non-profit organizations that cloud decision-making, throw meetings off track and delay action. Is your board waiting for Bill Gates to send you a big check? Understand the realities and learn myth busting techniques to use with your leadership.

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You’ve heard it said that over 75 percent of non-profit funding comes from individuals. Yes, individual donations do provide significant non-profit income–but only 26 percent of it. To succeed, especially in challenging economic times, you need to understand the size and composition of non-profit funding streams. And, you need to know which income sources will work for you and how to obtain them. This session gets you started.

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In this fun session, we explore fifteen creative ideas others are using to increase their revenue and present you with ideas on how you can build on them. We analyze why these ideas work and how they might help you. You’ll gain a new understanding of different opportunities and lots of tools to increase your non-profit revenue streams.

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Do you struggle to find ways to create grant requests to sustain you long-term vs. one-time winners? Would you like to know what to write to end the separation between grants and other fundraising? This CD helps you understand how to create applications that create new synergies and useful revenue. Set in motion the links between grants and individual donations, position your organization as future oriented and include items in your requests you never considered to get additional mileage from your grants.

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Among other advantages, you will benefit from:

• Understanding the donor’s perspective on grant giving
• Learning how you can match your needs and the donors to create win-wins
• Identifying multiple opportunities for donor points of contact
• Specific “scripts” to prepare you, with confidence, for numerous interactions

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• Learn how to prioritize your grant opportunities
• Understand how sorting opportunities into different types of grants helps you to clarify your next step
• Evaluate your success potential before submitting
• Discover how to harness the power of grant listing services

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The goal of this series is to help you with the basics of being ready for the whole grant process.

• From deciding where to apply
• For what to apply
• The impact the grant will have on your organization (i.e., sustainability)
• Plus grant writing and submittal

Preparing Your Organization & Pinpointing Ideal Grant Donors

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• The Map Inside Ft. Knox: More Grant Basics
• So, How Will You Use My Money? Discovering Activities with Natural Appeal
• What Will You Do After the Grant? Why You Must Know Before You Write

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You’ll discover how to craft proposals that enthuse donors, how to draft budgets, knock out narrative and avoid seven common proposal mistakes.

• Like House Painting: How to Make the Writing Easy With Preparation
• Pen to Paper: Background, Need Statements, Project Descriptions and Budgets
• Reviewing Drafts, Proofing for Success

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