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Articulate Your Nonprofit’s Value
Recorded Webinar: The Power of a Theory of Change – $39. This webinar will help you understand what a theory of change is, develop your own, and use it to attract more funding for your nonprofit. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: Creating a Message of Impact – $39. This recorded webinar details a far more effective way to communicate with potential donors: talking about the impact your nonprofit is having in the community. More Details >>>![]() |
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| Creating a Theory of Change Step-by-Step Guide – $15. This 8-section guide walks you through how to create a theory of change, giving your nonprofit a platform from which to raise more money, get board and funders more engaged, and chart a strategic direction. More Details >>> |
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| Creating a Nonprofit Case for Investment Step-by-Step Guide – $15. This 9-part guide helps you create a compelling Case for Investment to help your nonprofit communicate and connect with target donors much more effectively. More Details >>> |
Strengthen Your Organization
Live Webinar: Raising Capacity Capital – $49. Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 12:00-1:00pm EST. If you want to move your organization out of the starvation cycle, you have to learn how to raise capacity capital. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: Leading Difficult Conversations with Funders, Board Members and Employees – $39. This webinar will help you how to approach sticky situations in an assertive, graceful way, while positioning your organization to thrive. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: Moving Beyond A Nonprofit’s Founder – $39. This webinar will help nonprofits must learn how to vest leadership not in one person but in the broader organization. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: What Nonprofits Can Learn From Social Entrepreneurs – $39. This webinar gives you an overview of the social entrepreneurship movement and how nonprofit leaders can be more innovative, attract new kinds of funding and more. More Details >>>![]() |
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| Creating a Capacity Capital Campaign Step-by-Step Guide – $15. This 12-page guide takes you through the steps for creating your nonprofit’s capacity capital campaign. More Details >>> |
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| The Enormous Opportunity of Capacity Capital E-Book – $5. This e-book explains what capacity capital is, what it can be used for, how to convince funders of its importance, and how to raise it. More Details >>> |
Develop a Groundbreaking Board
Live Webinar: How to Build a Groundbreaking Board – $49. Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 12:00-1:00pm EST. A groundbreaking board can lead the nonprofit it serves to greater financial sustainability, more effective use of resources, and ultimately more social change. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: Getting Your Board to Raise Money – $39. This webinar will help you get your board members excited, engaged and committed to raising money for your nonprofit. More Details >>>![]() |
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| The Ten Traits of a Groundbreaking Board E-Book – $5. This 28-page e-book explores what a groundbreaking nonprofit board of directors looks like. More Details >>> |
Chart a Strategic Direction
Live Webinar: Embracing the Future of the Nonprofit Sector – $49. Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 12:00-1:00pm EST. Nonprofit leaders must understand changing trends and where the nonprofit sector is going in terms of regulation, public perception, technology, funding and much more. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: The Value of a Great Nonprofit Strategy – $39. This webinar will help understand the components and benefits of a strategic plan, and the planning process behind one. More Details >>>![]() |
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Attract More Support
Financing Not Fundraising E-Course for Nonprofit Leaders – $499. This e-course builds on the Financing Not Fundraising concept and helps nonprofit leaders who want to create a customized financing plan for their organization, but can’t afford the full consulting approach. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: Financing Not Fundraising Overview: Rethinking How Nonprofits Bring Money in the Door – $39. This webinar, based on our popular blog series shows nonprofits a broader approach to securing the overall financing necessary to create social change. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: Finding Individual Donors – $39. Individual donors make up 80% of the private money flowing to the nonprofit sector, yet many nonprofits don’t know how to find and communicate with individual donors. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: Evaluating Earned Income – $39. Earned income, or a nonprofit selling goods or services, may not be right for every nonprofit, but at the very least each nonprofit should evaluate whether it is an option. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: Calculating the Cost of Fundraising – $39. This webinar will help you learn how to calculate the cost of fundraising for every revenue-generating activity your organization engages in. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: Creating an Earned Income Stream – $39. This webinar builds on the earlier Evaluating Earned Income webinar, and is intended for those nonprofits that have a business idea and are ready to pursue an earned income stream. More Details >>>![]() |
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Recorded Webinar: Creating a Financing Plan – $39. This webinar will help you create an overall financing plan to bring enough money in the door to achieve your mission. More Details >>>![]() |
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| Creating a Nonprofit Financing Plan Step-by-Step Guide – $15. This 14-page guide takes you through the steps of creating your nonprofit’s overall financing plan to help you bring more money in the door in a sustainable way. More Details >>> |
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| Creating a Business Plan Step-by-Step Guide – $15. This 8-section guide helps you create a successful business plan for a new nonprofit earned income stream or a for-profit social enterprise. More Details >>> |
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| Creating a Major Donor Campaign Step-by-Step Guide – $15. This guide is intended as a tool to help smaller nonprofits create a strategy and plan of action for securing major donors. More Details >>> |
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| Financing Not Fundraising, 2012 E-Book – $5. This 25-page e-book expands on the basic elements of the Financing Not Fundraising model and helps those nonprofits that are ready to start moving away from fundraising to really dive into this new approach. More Details >>> |
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| Financing Not Fundraising, 2011 E-Book – $5. This 27-page e-book compiles and expands on the Financing Not Fundraising blog posts from 2011. More Details >>> |
E-Courses
- Financing Not Fundraising E-Course for Nonprofit Leaders
Webinars
- Embracing the Future of the Nonprofit Sector
- Raising Capacity Capital
- How to Build a Groundbreaking Board
- Creating a Message of Impact
- Evaluating Earned Income
- Finding Individual Donors
- Calculating the Cost of Fundraising
- Creating an Earned Income Stream
- Financing Not Fundraising Overview
- What Nonprofits Can Learn From Social Entrepreneurs
- Moving Beyond A Nonprofit’s Founder
- Leading Difficult Conversations with Funders, Board Members and Employees
- The Power of a Theory of Change
- The Value of a Great Nonprofit Strategy
- Creating a Financing Plan
- Getting Your Board to Raise Money
Step-by-Step Guides
- Creating a Financing Plan
- Creating a Capacity Capital Campaign
- Creating a Major Donor Campaign
- Creating a Business Plan
- Creating a Case for Investment
- Creating a Theory of Change
E-books
- Financing Not Fundraising, 2012
- The Enormous Opportunity of Capacity Capital
- The Ten Traits of a Groundbreaking Board
- Financing Not Fundraising, 2011
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