In recent workshops we facilitated for nonprofit leaders, we noted that many organizations lack a fundamental communications calendar aligned with strategic fundraising.That means they have no preplanned, well-thought-out approach for soliciting...
Strategic planning is often viewed by nonprofits as a necessary yet expensive and impractical exercise, encouraging at best only incremental rather than meaningful growth.
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats—SWOT, more familiarly. One would think that if an organization really fleshed out these four crucial business pillars using a SWOT analysis, nothing could escape improvement or growth. However, while the...
With the amount of time, thought, and expense that many nonprofits put into their strategic planning process, the last thing they’d want is for it to be a wasted effort. Yet, unfortunately, a variety of mistakes can creep into the process to make their...
If your nonprofit is struggling with subscriber conversions or timely donor engagement or segmenting communications, chances are you don’t have HubSpot anchoring your “tech stack.” HubSpot is a powerful constituent relationship management system (CRM), a...
While nonprofits exist to serve clients in need rather than stockholders, they do share a few things in common with their for-profit counterparts: Both have to adapt in order to grow or surviveBoth engage their audiences to compete for available dollars...