Making the Ask: A Guide for Volunteers
"Making the ask" is at the heart of good fundraising techniques. Simply put, the most common reason why people give is because they were asked.
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10 Things Your Board Can Do RIGHT NOW to Move the Philanthropic Needle
As summer approaches and volunteers start to enter “vacation mode,” it’s easy for your organization’s board expectations to fall by the wayside. Beyond their fiscal and governance responsibility, the crux of nonprofit board members’ responsibilities rest in the ability to move the philanthropic needle. Sure, not every board member fancies himself or herself a fundraiser.
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Board Committees: Why Are They Important?
Regardless of where a Board of Trustees is in its “life cycle” (for instance, a start-up board looks very different from a mature, 20-year+ Board with multiple programs and facets), functional committees become a key ingredient of the ongoing capacity building efforts of the organization. Indeed, as board authority BoardSource notes in Governance as Leadership,
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7 Tips to Get Your Board Engaged in Its Most Important Objective: Philanthropy
It is well-known that a board's role for both non-profit and for-profit organizations includes fiduciary and legal oversight. It is equally true that fundraising has never been a more crucial board responsibility than it is today.
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Why Your Board Must Get On Board with Fundraising
We all know that a board's role includes fiduciary and legal oversight. And that can be said of the boards of both non-profit and for-profit organizations. But there are major differences.
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