by Cyndi Lauren | Aug 19, 2016 | Nonprofit operations
A vision statement for a company or organization focuses on the potential inherent in the company’s future, or what they intend to be. Your vision statement tells everyone the future your organization envisions. A good vision statement provides a clear focus and...
by Cyndi Lauren | Jun 27, 2016 | Nonprofit operations
August 2005: I was taking my first couple of days off in years. We had just finished transitioning leadership at the organization, and things looked like they were finally coming together. We had re-branded the org, giving the members a new mission statement,...
by Cyndi Lauren | Jun 21, 2016 | Nonprofit operations, Volunteers
Fundraising is hard: period. Board members frequently cringe when faced with the prospect of raising money, development directors can face employment churn if they don’t raise enough fast enough; ongoing fundraising is front and center for virtually everyone in...
by Cyndi Lauren | Jun 7, 2016 | Nonprofit operations
Staff: Wow, that sounds interesting, what do we have to do? Do we have to pay to create the art and print for all 60 billboards? Board member: Yes, but it will only to be a couple of thousand and think how many people will see them and how much awareness we...
by Cyndi Lauren | May 12, 2016 | Nonprofit operations
Its Fundraising Reason: Donor Deduction Cheat Sheet One of the main attractions of nonprofit fundraising is that ‘your gift, donation, sponsorship or silent auction item is tax deductible’, and the smart folks are sure to add the language “ the the extent allowed by...
by Cyndi Lauren | May 3, 2016 | development and fundraising, Financial Reporting, fiscal management, Making Money, Nonprofit operations, Operations, Tools
A nonprofit metric is a standard of measurement, most often represented with numbers. A number has little ambiguity on its own, but alongside other numbers, the meaning of that number can become less clear. In nonprofit management and fundraising there has...
