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Organizations are smart to conduct an internal “gut check” and honestly assess their organizational readiness before embarking on non-grant fundraising strategies. In order to embark upon a diversified fundraising plan and successfully raise money from non-grant sources of revenue, organizations should be able to honestly answer “yes” to each of the questions in this toolkit.

This template can be useful for organizing information about donors and for deciding upon action points for establishing/maintaining relationships with donors as well as engaging them in planning. This example has been designed with a focus on family planning (FP) and adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health (AYSRH), but exemplifies the framework which can be adapted.

A checklist of ideas to design an inclusive and gender sensitive application process. Page 41-43

Start recruiting your board members in 5 steps… 1. Set Clear & Measurable Expectations 2. Improve Communication 3. Be Purposeful & Deliberate 4. Give Your Board a Purpose 5. Tailor Your Message to each Member

A List of Current NGO Grants and Funding + Call for Proposals and Upcoming Deadlines

A toolkit and guide for creative entrepreneurs to start their own businesses. The Creative Enterprise Toolkit provides a framework to develop a business plan by exploring an idea and creating a business model that suits the entrepreneur's hopes and motivations.

Sandy Rees, CFRE will show you seven simple steps to creating a written plan so you can raise all the money you need to fully fund your budget in the coming year.

Whether you are just starting the communications planning process, checking in on a communications campaign already in progress, or interested in reviewing an effort you have already executed, the Smart Chart 3.0™ will help you assess your strategic decisions to ensure that your communications strategy delivers high impact.

A toolkit and guide for creative entrepreneurs to start their own businesses. The Creative Enterprise Toolkit provides a framework to develop a business plan by exploring an idea and creating a business model that suits the entrepreneur's hopes and motivations.

A broad list of indicators that organisations can use to track their progress towards gender inclusion, including at the entrepreneur-customer level.

13 tips on how to talk to the private sector using the right language.

A list of latest grant funding opportunities for NGOs and individuals including call for proposals, call for applications, request for proposals and expression of interest.

Not sure which hashtags to use? RiteTag's hashtag comparison tool allows you to see which hashtags will help you get seen now, which will help you get seen over time, and which hashtags aren't worth using.

With the Facebook Ad Library you can easily view all of your competitors Facebook and Instagram ads. It's also a great place to find inspiration by seeing what ads bigger organisations are running.

A useful tool to help with you identify key private sector stakeholders and evaluate their influence and interest.

A introductory guide to making sense of the donor world from individual donors to corporate funding.

A tutorial on how to use Buffer to manage multiple social media accounts from the same platform. Buffer helps digital marketers consolidate tasks, schedule social posts for the future and review performance of social media marketing campaigns. This full-length Buffer tutorial covers all of the primary features and is intended for beginners and experts.

This guide is design for philanthropic organisations and nonprofits that want to be more effective with their communications. The guide is based on surveys with more than 80 experts along with extensive review of existing resources and reports.

This open source curriculum outlines how an introductory session on gender dynamics and bias could be structured. It includes materials and reflection questions. This workshop could be delivered to the team by an internal or external facilitator/trainer.

This document is designed to strengthen mentors of women; from identifying how and who we can mentor, clarifying the goals of the mentee, and how to build a strong relationship.

The ‘Start your business’ course is aimed at founders who are in the phase of developing ideas and testing product-market fit.The first module focuses on how to build a great team, the second module on the environment you operate in and the third module discusses the importance of knowing your target market.

This report covers SPRING Accelerator's learning so that other accelerators, programmes, donors and ecosystem-builders can build on our experience to better support businesses to innovate for impact. We covered so much ground that we decided to break up our learning into four sub-themes: the human-centred design process, business models for girl impact, accelerator design and investment.

In this Toolkit, you will find supports for applying for grants. Part I gives a step-by-step overview of the grantwriting process. Part II provides a general template for writing a grant application. Completing Part II will give you a solid proposal that can be adapted to meet specific grant opportunities and review criteria for specific funders.

Prospects are either contacts you want to turn into donors or existing donors who you want to give again. Effective prospect management is the backbone of successful fundraising. It is the creation and management of an information tracking system (sometimes called a ‘moves management’ or ‘donor tracking’ system) to chart the progress of prospects through the continuous fundraising cycle of identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship.

Comprehensive answers to the ten most frequently asked marketing questions including: What are the first steps in developing a strategic communications plan? How do we create a budget for communications? And what is an elevator speech and why should I have one?

Conversion Ads Vs Traffic Ads: Which is better? To answer this question I set up a case study with the agreement of one of the companies we work with. I tested the EXACT same campaign in both a traffic and a conversion objective and measured the results. I’ll go over the results in a moment, but first let me tell you a little bit more about the company that I did the case study with.

Why you need goals for your social media and how to set them.