At Social Velocity we are passionate about helping nonprofits grow their programs, bring more money in the door and use their resources more effectively. The tools on this page can help you get started.

Step-by-Step Guides

These guides walk you step-by-step through a process that will result in a stronger, more effective, more sustainable organization.

	Business Plan Guide – $15. This 7-section guide helps you create a successful business plan for a new nonprofit earned income stream or a for-profit social enterprise. More Details >>>
	Creating a Case for Support – $15. This 8-part guide helps you create a compelling Case for Support to help your nonprofit communicate and connect with target donors much more effectively. More Details >>>
	Creating a Theory of Change – $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 >>>
	Revenue Plan Guide – $15. This 10-page guide takes you through the steps for creating your nonprofit’s annual, diversified, revenue plan. More Details >>>

Webinars

Our webinars, live or recorded, provide new models and approaches to your toughest nonprofit challenges.

	Live Webinar: Financing Not Fundraising: Evaluating Earned Income – $40. Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 12:00-1:00pm EST. 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 >>>
	Live Webinar: Financing Not Fundraising: Finding Individual Donors – $40. Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 12:00-1:00pm EST. 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 >>>
	Live Webinar: Financing Not Fundraising: Jump Starting Your Board – $40. Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 12:00-1:00pm EST. This webinar will help you get your board members excited, engaged and committed to raising money for your nonprofit. More Details >>>
	Live Webinar: Financing Not Fundraising: Integrating Mission & Money – $40. Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 12:00-1:00pm EST. The most successful nonprofit organizations are those that fully integrate their mission and their revenue engine. This webinar will help you do that. More Details >>>
	Recorded Webinar: Financing Not Fundraising: Creating a Message of Impact – $40. 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 >>>
	Recorded Webinar: Financing Not Fundraising: Creating a Financing Plan – $40. This recorded webinar will help nonprofit leaders create an overall financing plan to bring money in the door. More Details >>>
	Recorded Webinar: Financing Not Fundraising Overview: Rethinking How Nonprofits Bring Money in the Door – $40 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 >>>
	Recorded Webinar: What Nonprofits Can Learn From Social Entrepreneurs – $40. 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 >>>
	Recorded Webinar: Financing Not Fundraising: Raising Capacity Capital – $40. If you want to move your organization out of the starvation cycle, you have to learn how to raise capacity capital. More Details >>>

E-Books

Our e-books provide comprehensive information on a specific topic.

	The Ten Traits of a Groundbreaking Board – $5. This 28-page e-book explores what a groundbreaking nonprofit board of directors looks like. More Details >>>
	Financing Not Fundraising, 2011 – $5. This 27-page e-book compiles and expands on the Financing Not Fundraising blog posts from 2011. More Details >>>

Blog Series

Our blog series provide regular, on-going insight to help you think about things in new ways.

• Financing Not Fundraising Blog Series
• Social Velocity Interview Series with Social Innovators
• 10 Great Social Innovation Reads
• Raising Money to Grow On
• Reader Questions

Podcasts

Our podcasts discuss how the nonprofit sector is transforming and what nonprofit leaders can do about it.

	Interview with Nell Edgington at Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication
	Interview with Nell Edgington on The Giving Show
	Making Nonprofits More Entrepreneurial: A Podcast with Nell Edgington

Social Velocity Blog

Our blog is filled with tips and tools to get you started. Here are some of our most popular and resource-rich blog posts:

• Creating the Donors You Really Need
• Wielding the Money Sword
• Calculating the Cost of Fundraising
• Asking for Money in a Recession
• The Power of a Case
• The Critical Alignment of Mission, Money & Competence
• Where Do You Fit in the Market?
• Making Donors Organization Builders
• 5 Things Board Members Can Do to Build Organizations
• Capacity Capital
• A New Kind of Nonprofit Leader
• Fixing the World Requires Disruptive Not Incremental Change
• Bringing Small Nonprofits to Scale
• We Need an Ecosystem for the Bottom 80
• If We Could Be So Bold
• 5 Ways to Scale