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Buyer's Guide to Fundraising Software
The Buyer's Guide to Fundraising Software can help you determine which donor database it best for your organization and fundraising strategy.
Overview of RFP Process for Nonprofits, Charities, and Libraries
TechSoup offers some basic considerations for each phase of the Request for Proposal process.
Ten Keys to Successful Strategic Planning
TCC Group's paper offers ten keys to succession strategic planning for nonprofit and foundation leaders, and how it's both remained the same and changed over the past ten years.
Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Social enterprise is about using a market-driven business model to address key social and environmental issues. Often, nonprofits apply ideas and practices from social entrepreneurship to advance their missions.
Small Business Center Network
The Small Business Center Network (SBCN) offers programs, services, and resources to start and grow a business or nonprofit organization - including guiding you through the steps of considering, planning, developing, opening, and operating the organization.
Crowdfunding for Nonprofits
Considerations for crowdfunding and fundraising for your nonprofit from the National Council of Nonprofits.
Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity
This report highlights the challenges associated with executive transitions and describes a model of executive management transition.
Build a Fundraising Committee To Succeed
Tips for organizing a team of volunteers that not only raise funds, but also raise resources for your mission.
Ambassadors Chart Sample
Ambassador charts encourage board participation and highlights individual board members' efforts.
Toward a Theory of Sector Selection
As social entrepreneurs around the world create new organizations to solve emerging public problems, they do so drawing on a broad range of organizational forms, ranging from the traditional nonprofit form to the classic business corporate form.
Best Practices for Gift Acknowledgement
Guide for designing and implementing a system to provide donors with timely and meaningful thank yous and acknowledgments.
Donor Thank You Mini-Guide
A short guide to help you create efficacious donor thank yous.
What Do All Good Stories Have In Common?
What's one common message that all good stories have?
The Five Parts of the Perfect Pitch
You've got a handful of minutes to pitch your nonprofit. What do you say?
Stories or Data: Which Makes the Stronger Case?
A case-study from storytelling expert Andy Goodman details which works more: stories or data?