Ready to level up your annual donation solicitation letter? Then check out these tops tips in the live appeal letters workshop! This workshop is complete with actionable tips and tricks to raise more money with your annual appeal letter - by reviewing actual nonprofit appeal letters.

One of the key ways to get your nonprofit on the right track for 2024 is to make sure you and your board are on the same page - and engaged. Take action on these 7 things to move your nonprofit organization forward.

What does a nonprofit board of directors do? What are the primary roles and responsibilities of a board member of a nonprofit organization? What does effective board governance look like? The answers to these questions are not intuitive.

Maintaining an effective nonprofit board isn’t rocket science, but it does involve intention. And, although you might tell yourself “they’re technically my boss,” if you want to have a badass nonprofit and move your agency to the next level, YOU need to know what might be going “wrong” with your board so you can develop strategies to fix the board issues!

So if you're like most nonprofits, you've probably done this Giving Tuesday thing over and over again and, potentially, unsuccessfully. So, before you get started diving into Giving Tuesday this year, I want you to ask yourself these six questions about whether Giving Tuesday is right for your organization.

For almost all nonprofits, the last 3 months of the year are THE MOST important. 31% of all annual gifts come in in December. With Giving Season Just around the corner, check out these 10 tips to do Giving Season right as a nonprofit fundraiser!

So, your board just had a discussion about the organization’s allocation of staff and resources over the coming months? They’re debating whether the proposed new service fits into your mission?

These meetings start out fine. But then, someone goes deep. They give an example of a potential problem, or they ask how we should handle this minor detail, or they give their opinion about some small item. That’s where it starts. And, then we get drawn into “the enticing complexity of operations.”

So if you’re like many non-profit leaders, you’re wrapping up the end of this calendar year and preparing for the future. And many non-profits kick off the new year by digging their hands deep into planning their next spring special event.