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Three Critical Strategies for You During ...

We wanted to share three pieces of strategic and financial guidance that may be especially valuable at this time:

  1. Lean on Your Strategic Plan for Direction

  2. Connect with Your Funders

  3. Nonprofits: Explore Two Financial Resources

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Top 10 Quotes for Strengthening Your Organization

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Top 10 Quotes for Strengthening Your Organization

In my customer work I try to communicate powerful concepts in simple and memorable ways. One of my favorite tools to do this is using relevant and powerful quotes.

To that end I've collected scores of quotes during my career. Whittling that collection down to a "top 10" for this article was a tough exercise. Many excellent quotes didn't make the final list.

I ended up choosing this list because these are the quotes that I find most inspiring for myself and our customers. I hope you find them helpful.

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A Simple Research-based Tip for Setting More Effective Goals

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For several years we’ve told our clients that there are two types of goals: process goals and results goals. For example, a process goal may be "to write one grant per month." The correlating results goal might be "to acquire $100K in new funding this year."

So, for these goals, the question is: "Which goal will help us get the result we want -- the $100K?" The correct answer is "it depends.”

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Research Indicates a Strong Positive Correlation Between Strategic Planning and the Fundraising Success of Small Nonprofits

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In 2020, Mission Met set out to learn more about the relationship between strategic planning and fundraising. For years, I've seen the positive effect that strategic planning has on the ability to fundraise successfully, but I've never had qualitative data to back it up.

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Death by Meeting

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I've borrowed the title for this blog entry from one of my favorite business books, Death by Meeting by Pat Lencioni. The basic idea of the book is not that you'll die by meetings. Rather, you might die from awful meetings.

As you know, awful meetings happen all the time. They take too long. They wander aimlessly. They don’t start or end on time. You’d pretty much rather be anywhere else.

Your Organization’s Strategy to Navigate COVID-19

If you’re like the leaders of many small organizations, COVID-19 is forcing you and your team to answer some significant questions:

  • How will COVID-19 impact the priorities of our funders?

  • Do we need to pivot our programs and services?

  • Will we have to lay off some staff to make it through?

  • How can we best support our virtual staff?

  • How will our strategic plan change?

  • What do we need to do right now?

These are tough questions. Wouldn’t it be great if you had a simple and practical way to get some clarity on them?