How to Include an Additional Funding Plan in a Nonprofit Grant Application
When writing grant applications, your nonprofit should follow the age-old concept of not putting all your eggs in one basket. Between many foundations’ reluctance to pay for 100 percent of a project’s [more…]
How to Compile an Appendix for a Nonprofit Grant Application
Not all nonprofit grant proposals include a conclusion.Some writers feel that a conclusion is repetitive and unnecessary. On the other hand, if the proposal ends with a discussion of future and additional [more…]
How to Seek General Operating Support for Your Nonprofit Organization Organization
If you’re seeking funds for general operating support, your proposal needs to make an argument for the work of the entire nonprofit agency rather than for a specific project. [more…]
How to Find Seed Money for a New Nonprofit Agency
Some foundations specialize in “seed funding” for new projects and new nonprofit organizations. A seed proposal has two key ingredients: careful assessment of the problem to be addressed and special qualifications [more…]
How to Create a Successful Nonprofit Fundraising Letter
Your nonprofit fundraising letter isn’t just a letter; it also includes a mailing envelope, a reply envelope and card, and sometimes a brochure, a copy of a newspaper clipping, or a photograph. All these [more…]
How to Write a Telemarketing Fundraising Script for Your Nonprofit
Every call should open with a clear, direct, personal greeting: “Hello, Mr. I’m-Getting-the-Person’s-Name-Right, I’m Ms. Call-a-Lot and I wanted to talk to you about the Scenic Overlook Preservation Fund [more…]
How to Coach Tele-Fundraising Volunteers for Your Nonprofit
Telemarketing can be an excellent nonprofit board or volunteer group effort. If someone involved with your organization works in an office that has multiple telephone lines, see whether you can borrow [more…]
How to Create a Case Statement for Nonprofit Fundraising
A case statement is a tool often used when asking for a contribution. It’s a short, compelling argument for supporting the nonprofit that can be presented as a brochure, a one-page information sheet, or [more…]
How to Identify Potential Nonprofit Donors Using Circles of Connection
A common brainstorming exercise that nonprofit organizations use to identify possible individual donors is known as Circles of Connections. This exercise is most effective if both staff and board members [more…]
How to Engage Your Nonprofit’s Board of Directors in Potential Donor Identification
Every year, or before you start work on a special event or letter-writing campaign to raise funds for your nonprofit, ask each of your organization’s board members to provide the names of ten or more people [more…]
How to Cultivate a Major Gift to Your Nonprofit
Face-to-face visits are the best way to secure large contributions to your nonprofit organization. Generally, several contacts must take place before a major donor is ready to make a commitment. [more…]
How to Analyze the Fundraising Potential of Your Nonprofit
Different approaches to raising funds work best for different kinds of nonprofits. When you make a fundraising plan, you have to be both ambitious about your goals and realistic about what’s likely to [more…]
How to Draft a Fundraising Strategy for Your Nonprofit
Implementing a nonprofit fundraising strategy is a lot easier when you have a guide to follow. In the first stage, you brainstorm and then refine your list of ideas, creating a fundraising strategy that [more…]
How to Move from a Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy to an Action Plan
A good nonprofit fundraising plan fills in the practical details that move it from being a list of goals and contacts to being a road map for your fundraising’s direction. These three steps help you incorporate [more…]
How to Budget for Nonprofit Fundraising
Raising money costs money and the costs need to be in your nonprofit’s budget. No nonprofit receives every grant or gift that it seeks. So it needs to be sure upfront that it can afford its potential fundraising [more…]
How to Raise Funds for a New Nonprofit Organization
One tried-and-true rule of fundraising is that people give money to people they know and causes they care about. Making a contribution to a new nonprofit is an expression of trust. That means the likeliest [more…]
How to Successfully Ask for Contributions to Your Nonprofit
The key rule of fundraising is “If you don’t ask, you won’t get.” Taking the step of asking is critical, but so is knowing how to ask. According to marketing experts who study motivations for doing just [more…]
How to Project Cash Flow for Your Nonprofit
A cash flow projection is a subdocument of your nonprofit budget that estimates not just how much money you will receive and spend over the course of a year, but [more…]
What to Do if Your Nonprofit Doesn’t Have Enough Cash
Your nonprofit probably won’t have more income than expenses in every single one-month period throughout the year. During some periods, you get ahead, and at other times, you fall behind. Your goal is [more…]
How to Borrow Money for Your Nonprofit
One route to managing cash shortfalls in your nonprofit is to borrow the money you need to cover your bills. Your cash flow statement can help you plan the size and duration of the loan you need. Here [more…]
How to Create a Grant Proposal for a Capital Project at a Nonprofit
Grant proposals for capital projects follow the general outline of a standard grant proposal for a nonprofit project with some variations and additions. The grant writer needs to describe the organization’s [more…]
How to Use E-Tools to Build and Maintain Relationships for Your Nonprofit
Nonprofit fundraising is about building relationships with people. Individual donors want to feel that they’re appreciated. E-mail and other web-based tools can help. [more…]
How to Collect Money Online for Your Nonprofit
Key first steps to raising money through the Internet are to add a “donate now” button to your nonprofit organization’s website and to have volunteers reach out to their friends via their e-mails. [more…]
How to Preplan a Nonprofit Capital Campaign
After your nonprofit organization begins thinking that it may want to raise funds for a capital project, you seek outside assistance in the form of workshops, classes, or consulting. Convincing yourself [more…]
How to Develop a Rough Budget for Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign
Before you test your nonprofit’s project to find out whether it’s feasible, you need assistance figuring out what it will cost. A common mistake organizations make is forgetting that raising money costs [more…]
