Fundraising events are one way to diversify your organization’s revenue sources. Typically, event sponsorship is available at multiple levels. Below is a sample sponsorship package for an event.
Organizations exist in complex environments that include the board itself, the staff, its customers, clients, donors, and other stakeholders; the organization’s traditions, values, and history; its economic, social, competitive and regulatory environment; and so on and on. The organization’s executive serves a key role in carrying out the board’s directives while balancing these numerous – and often conflicting – interests and pressures.
The board of director’s oversight role brings a fundamental tension to the board/executive director relationship. Who is ultimately in charge? There are no firm guidelines about where board oversight leaves off and executive management begins. In this grey area, struggles for power and authority often emerge.
Conventional wisdom emphasizes the importance to a nonprofit organization of its core leadership: a healthy board chair-executive director relationship. Organizational effectiveness is at stake when this relationship is weak, or worse, dysfunctional. While such an assertion may seem intuitively correct, there is a lack of empirical work that explores the dynamics of this key relationship or its influence, if any, on the nonprofit organization.
Boardsource.org strongly recommends that one of the ten responsibilities of a board is self-assessment. Think of a highly functioning board. A common denominator is likely that it is a board that is aware of it strengths and weaknesses with an eye towards ongoing improvement.
There are many steps to planning a successful event, from choosing a venue and applying for permits to sending invitations. Use the below timeline to ensure you’re on track to run a successful event. Keep in mind, this is a general timeline and may not include all activities needed to plan your specific event.
Use this template for tracking grants. A manually updated tracking sheet is the most basic way to track grants. Once your organization has several grants, you may consider using a calendar application or grant management system that allows for notifications and alerts when deadlines are approaching.
Below is a sample job description for a Development Director.
Not only is it more expensive to acquire a new donor, as opposed to retaining one, it typically takes a nonprofit up to two years to recoup the money they spent on attracting and acquiring a new donor, says CauseVox. Solution Link IMS shares the critical donor retention metrics to track.
This article provides detailed information on board committees.