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 guarantees you will gather the knowledge you need to submit successful grant applications for those ideas.

Learn why nonprofit organizations are so vulnerable to myths. Find out five common money myths that lurk in and around nonprofit 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.

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

In this fun session, we explore fifteen creative ideas others are using to increase their revenue and presented 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 nonprofit revenue streams.

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.

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

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

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.

• 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

You’ll discover how to craft proposals that enthuse funders, 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