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How Convincing is Your Nonprofit's Fundraising Ask?

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Tired of the endless fundraising circuit, nonprofit leaders sometimes get frustrated when prospective donors won’t invest in their nonprofits, like this executive director: “Here’s my problem…It’s obvious these people have money, they just don’t want to share it with us.” What this executive director fails to realize is that the burden to connect the dots […]

Financing Not Fundraising: Find Money for Building Capacity

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Part 6 of our ongoing blog series, Financing Not Fundraising, demonstrates the critical importance of money for building nonprofit capacity and describes how to find it. There must be a recognition in the nonprofit sector, and among the philanthropy that funds it, that nonprofits need money to support not only their direct services, but also […]