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It's time to empower farmers to combat hunger and eliminate the reliance on their food donations! By fostering community engagement and embracing innovative solutions, we can make a significant impact. Exciting news from Northeastern Pennsylvania! 📢📢📢 We've introduced 4 new markets to support local farmers, including farm-to-nonprofit, farm-to-community stands in food apartheid areas, farm-to-school produce stands 📚📚📚, and farm-to-retail in low-income communities. 🛒🛒🛒 This initiative doesn't involve warehousing or complex logistics, leading to reduced food loss on farms and increased profits for farmers. In a recent success story, 300lbs of freshly harvested broccoli 🥦🥦🥦 was prevented from going to waste, breaking the cycle of farmers feeling obligated to donate their produce. Let's continue to build sustainable solutions and create a brighter future for both farmers and communities. #CommunityBuilding #FoodSecurity #LocalFarming #Sustainability #Innovation #FoodDignity #SystemsChange #PayFarmers

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Did you know that understanding funder priorities can significantly enhance your grant application's success? Here are three key elements funders look for: Alignment with Mission: Ensure your project aligns closely with the funder's mission and strategic goals. Tailor your narrative to highlight this connection. Clear Impact Metrics: Define how you will measure the success of your project. Funders want to see tangible, measurable outcomes that demonstrate impact. Sustainability: Showcase how your project will continue to thrive after the funding period ends. Highlight plans for long-term sustainability and potential for future funding. By focusing on these elements, you can create a compelling grant proposal that stands out. We're here to help! davisdevco.com #GrantWritingTips #NonprofitFunding #SuccessfulGrants #DavisDevCo #GrantApplications #NonprofitSupport #CommunityImpact

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Get ready for the upcoming #DigitalEquity #SparkGrants funding cycle! Mark your calendars for May 16th to join members of the grant committee for an informational webinar to discover how you can secure funding of up to $25K. Learn about the cycle's focal points and ask any questions you may have: https://lnkd.in/gsDpzhnp

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Ambiguous vs Clear in your #Fundraising #Appeal (1); #Strategy 4 the #Nonprofit #Professional (2); Accelerating Giving (3); #Video Storytelling (4) + : https://ow.ly/yef650SAFF7 https://ow.ly/YcGz50SAFF6 https://ow.ly/5lvm50SAFF4 https://ow.ly/Lp3H50SAFF5

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Reading the Fundraising Hand You've Been Dealt If your board, insiders and volunteers respond to your calls and rise regularly to your funding requests but few of your prospects do, it means you need to spend more time on capturing initial support, developing loyalty, creating substantive volunteer opportunities and cultivating "insidership". If you have a good number of volunteers but less than 50 percent give regularly, it means you've tried to use volunteer slots to get people to give when you should have used volunteer slots to reward those who were already giving. Now you know what to do. If your board and insiders don't represent some of your most generous and loyal donors, it means you have to slowly rebuild your board and recruit culture changers, and politely ignore their advice about fundraising. If you're president isn't effective in engaging current and prospective donors in strategic "what if" dialogue, it means you have to look for other deployable assets especially those who are providing your organization's essential services. Fundraising isn't getting any easier. Those still playing the old formulas are having less and less success. Circumstances favor the resourceful and those who can read the cards and figure out the best way to play the hand they've been dealt - and know how to re-stack the deck.

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Want to increase your fundraising ROI by 50% in 6 months. Watch this video and learn how! Overview: Grants and galas can be effective sources of fundraising, but this video shows you why face-to-face fundraising is the BEST strategy for raising money, when time and resources are scarce . . . and why it's the best LONG-TERM strategy! Spend 9 min right now and learn how you can increase the ROI of your fundraising efforts to raise money more effectively. https://lnkd.in/gQH3nRuy

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Nonprofit boards need updated, relevant, and useful information to make decisions and provide informed governance. Having good data and data visualization doesn’t just make a good impression on your nonprofit board. It also helps you accomplish what your organization needs on behalf of your clients and beneficiaries. Read what nonprofit boards really want to see - and how to give it to them in today's blog from the Fundraising Report Card. https://lnkd.in/dKFkX4bT #nonprofitboards #nonprofitmetrics

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Successful fundraising hinges on communications that inspires, informs, and motivates potential donors. Effective fundraising communications is more than just asking for money; it’s about building relationships, telling compelling stories, and demonstrating impact. Read article:

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Questions We Can Ask To Turn Advancement Toward More Sustainable Practices I feel it, so do many of you. We're forming a critical mass of new thought. We're moving from gift getting to partnership building, from fundraising to philanthropic facilitation, from measuring success not just on dollars but donors retained and donors enlivened, from "acquiring donors" to attracting and nurturing kindred spirits. There's real movement toward the substantive and the sustainable. Each one of us can contribute and help this movement gain momentum by asking the right questions at the right moment every day. Every day. Just a few questions. We have to have the courage of our convictions but we also have to be diplomatic, respectful and professional. You won't cause anyone to rethink their assumptions, if you remain quiet, frustrated or disillusioned. You won't cause anyone to come on board our wagon by scoffing, bristling, or rolling your eyes (even if done inside your head). You know what to do. You've done it a thousands of times with donors and volunteers and others. You rebuff the unfounded and redirect the mistaken by asking "But what about...." You create alignments by asking, "Could we look at this together?" You don't put yourself above or below others. You engage as equals using the most effective community building and relationship building tool ever invented - genuine conversation. We learn and grow together by listening to and learning from each other. That's it. That's the only practical and sustainable way forward. So, as someone who has labored long but joyously in this vineyard and tried to make it better, may I ask a favor of you? Will you commit to asking at least a few good questions each day? Will you share this idea with others and ask them to share with you what they have learned so we can all learn together? Do you see how thousands and thousands of thoughtful practitioners around the world, by asking a few good questions each day, can become the water of hope that wears down the rock of transactional complacency and eventually turns from a trickle to a river racing to a new sea of possibility, a new way of achieving what we want together? Yes, of course it will never be perfect but water, not rock, brings life and feeds life. Choose to be water. Feed the trickle. Share your questions. Even if you don't always get the right answers, remember good questions never go away. They live and persist, waiting for good answers. They are seeds borne on the water of hope looking for fertile ground in which to take root. Be a sower. Sow a few thoughtful questions every day.

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Whilst its hard to see that any progress has been made, to the contrary - it looks like 0 progress made and everything got worse, with recent years breaking through the 1.5C targets. We mustn't give up hope that the many initiatives that have been kicked off as a result of these agreements, have prevented worse things from happening... too optimistic? maybe But working in the sustainability and SDG space has never been more exciting, with many people sharing that a just transition to a more sustainable, de-growth and circular economy is, ...possible. The questions is how fast, to prevent worse things from happening (Climate Catastrophy, Ecological Collapse, ...the list is getting longer). Currently the ANNUAL financing gap to the 2030 SDGs is (according to UN estimates), around $4 trillion. This is the same as Germany's or Japan's Gross Domestic Product. This is a staggering number and concept that the money missing to achieve the SDGs is the same as the monetary value of ALL finished goods and services made in Germany or Japan on an annual basis. And yet, the world economy is worth around $100 Trillion, so $4 trillion = 4%. That ...almost...sounds doable? too optimistic? maybe When it comes to asset managers, total discretionary assets under management (AUM) of the 500 biggest managers amounted to USD 113.7 trillion at the end of 2022, down by 13.7% from the end of 2021. The largest, BlackRock, manages $10 trillion and the next biggest 2, Vanguard ($9 trillion) and Fidelity ($4 trillion). Surely, investing into solutions on a planet that is actually liveable with resources being consumed at a sustainable pace is what its at? Otherwise, what will be managed in 20 or 30 years?

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Thinking about getting your CFRE? Join AFP Maryland Chapter tomorrow from 12-1pm to learn more about becoming a CFRE and the process.

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Having just gone through the experience of sitting for my CFRE, I can't emphasize enough how valuable this webinar will be for anyone considering pursuing their certification. Join to learn more about the application process and requirements, the basics of the test itself, and connect with others in your shoes! #cfre #fundraising #afpmaryland #webinar #professionaldevelopment

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Maximize your fundraising with proven strategies from the Gravyty Donor Engagement Benchmark Report. Did you know that in 2024, fundraisers will invest in ‘improving donor engagement’ and ‘enhancing pipeline development and qualification’ to achieve goals? ADage is here to help your community understand what works in donor retention and engagement to fuel your nonprofit's mission. #EngageToInspire #NonprofitSuccess

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Whether you're new to major gifts fundraising or a seasoned pro, you know that donor identification is a key factor in your role. Check out how you can find major donors among the masses in your database. Some may surprise you. https://lnkd.in/ee9M-Gga #donoridentification #majorgiftsfundraising

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The Same Fundraising Strategies But Very Different Results You read a book or go to a conference to learn about best practice in fundraising. You take in what appear to be the wisest strategies and the sharpest tactics. You apply them at your place but the results continue to disappoint. Were those authors and speakers misleading or were they unwittingly attributing their success to the wrong factors? In fact, the same strategies and techniques applied in different cultures can produce very different results. So much depends on the state of your philanthropic soil which you can assess by answering the five questions below. I think you will see the real answer to them all - that fundraising strategies and tactics are of little value if there is not an organization-wide commitment to nurturing its philanthropic soil. There's not a lot of low-hanging fruit out there. There are some abundant orchards who can expect strong yields for years to come but many organizations are beginning to realize their future funding possibilities are running thin. Too often they ask, "How can we rebuild the pipeline?" The answer? There never was a pipeline. It was an orchard that you couldn't see. It has been depleted from not being seen. Your only real hope is to change your metaphor and change your attitude and change your practices. From now on, think "orchard" and dedicate yourself to its agronomic principles and necessities.

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Fundraising revenue fizzled in 2022 for reasons that included a struggling economy, record inflation, and stock market declines. Despite expectations of a recession that has yet to become a reality, nonprofits continue to struggle to raise money for their causes, as sector trends continued to follow a downward trend in 2023. The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) report recently revealed its fundraising data and analysis for 2023. It assessed data from more than 8,100 organizations, which includes 4.8 million donors and $6.5 billion in donations. This NonProfitPRO article further delves into its findings and identifies four insights into another down year for nonprofit fundraising. https://lnkd.in/e3mbEJjT #fundraising #nonprofits

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