Financing Not Fundraising: A Social Velocity Blog Series

Fundraising in the nonprofit sector just doesn’t work anymore.  Indeed, traditional fundraising is holding the sector back by keeping nonprofits in the starvation cycle of trying to do more and more with less and less. Really, what the sector needs is a financing strategy, not a fundraising strategy.  That means that nonprofits have to break out of the narrow view that traditional FUNDRAISING (individual donor appeals, events, foundation grants) will completely fund all of their activities.  Instead, nonprofits must work to create a broader approach to securing the overall FINANCING necessary to create social change.

This is an ongoing series to be added to via posts on the Social Velocity blog.

If you want to learn more about how to apply the concepts of Financing Not Fundraising to your nonprofit, check out our Financing Not Fundraising Webinar Series.

1. Part 1: A New Way to Fund Social Impact
2. Part 2: Create a Financing Plan
3. Part 3: Align Money and Mission
4. Part 4: Find Individual Donors
5. Part 5: Develop a Message of Social Impact
6. Part 6: Raise Money for Building Capacity
7. Part 7: Explore New Types of Money
8. Part 8: Evaluate Earned Income
9. Part 9: Calculate the Cost of Fundraising
10. Part 10: Move From Push to Pull
11. Part 11: Stop Lying to Donors
12. Part 12: Jump Start Your Board
13. Part 13: The Critical Alliance Between Executive & Development Directors
14. Part 14: How to Rebut Crazy Donor Demands

To download the 27-page Financing Not Fundraising e-book, click here.
 
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