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THE TAKEAWAY: Organisations that invest time and effort in building and maintaining strong relationships with donors – including foundations and other grantmakers – are the most successful fundraisers. Strong relationships require careful research, great communication, thoughtful strategy and a collaborative approach.

This tool helps to reflect on current selection criteria, identify potential gender bias and barriers, and develop alternative criteria. Page 36

In our method we combine design thinking and co-creation. It is a process, a mindset and a set of skills. Over the years we have developed tools and techniques that can be adjusted to local contexts and used to tackle any social issue.

This document offers example questions we can include in a gender smart needs assessment. It includes four areas: Decision Making Power, Supporting Structures, Self-efficacy and Personal Environment. Page 41

Hootsuite’s Streams offer an easy way to engage with your audience, and keep track of social activities happening across all your social channels. In one place, you monitor things like conversations, mentions, keywords, and hashtags -- and respond right away, rather than visiting all your social profiles individually.

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

A style guide is a set of ground rules for usage decisions, both editorial (spelling, sentence structure, tone, and more) and design (colors, fonts, and other elements). A good style guide will save you time, strengthen your communications and ensure your team is always on the same page.

Volunteers are essential for nonprofits. In a sector where we usually have more work to do than we have staff to do it, volunteers boost our power, lighten the load, and exponentially increase our impact. Best of all, they do it because they believe in the cause and want to help. But how do we find these superstars who freely give their time, energy, and expertise? Where are they all hiding?

Course for business mentors, dedicated to African business professionals to boost high-powered mentoring abilities to support entrepreneurs while learning to think and act like a savvy business angel.

Grant tracking template from Trello. Keep your grant opportunities organised with different lists and tags.

A broad list of indicators and metrics that can be used to assess progress towards gender inclusion Page 59 - 62

The Business Model Canvas, a tool for visionaries, game changers, and challengers.

A strategy guide to boost your non-profit storytelling

Create a social media advertising funnel using this three pronged approach: Connect, Commit, Close

Suggestions for how we can affect positive change in the ecosystem at large, at the levels of; policy, markets and culture. Page 70

Tracking social media just got a LOT easier. Recently, Google Analytics received a whole new batch of social reports that break down your social traffic so you know whether or not your social media marketing is working. This articles walks you through each new report so you know how to use these puppies. By the end of the post, you’ll be completely comfortable using the new Google Analytics social reports.

Learn how to to analyse your social media audiences, eliminate the donkeys and maximise the unicorns!

33 free *excellent* Decision Sheets to help you make the right decisions for your entrepreneurship center program. Including: Mapping your network, how to select the best mentor, which collaborative projects to work on, how to measure your clients success, and more.

When used carefully Phantom Buster is a powerful tool for automating your social media growth strategy. Did you know 20-30% of people you follow will follow you back. Identify social media accounts with similar target audiences to yours, download a list of their followers and then start following them. You can unfollow those who don't follow back in order to retain a reasonable follower ratio. ---Free for first 15 days then limited to one automation.

Ever visited a business website only to have ads for the business magically follow you as you browse other sites and social media platforms? If you’re curious to know exactly how that’s done, you’re going to want to get acquainted with marketing pixels (also known as tracking pixels). Used properly, these tiny bits of code can transform your digital ad campaigns, optimise your website, and even increase online conversions.

olunteers are essential for nonprofits. In a sector where we usually have more work to do than we have staff to do it, volunteers boost our power, lighten the load, and exponentially increase our impact. Best of all, they do it because they believe in the cause and want to help. But how do we find these superstars who freely give their time, energy, and expertise? Where are they all hiding?

This template can be used to explore an employee's career goals, skills gaps to be addressed, and actions to take towards goals. over a 12 month period.

An in-depth guide to setting up a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn profile for your business.

The aim of the Guide is to provide an easy-to-use set of activities, case studies, tools and best practice templates to support non-profits of all sizes with building fundraising strategies that sustain their impact. This Guide is for you if you are looking to generate income through partnerships with high-value audiences, for example Trusts and Foundations, Governments, Multilaterals, Corporates, and / or High-Net-Worth Individuals.

A breakdown of what to include in your organisations brand style guide.

When developing a grant proposal, it’s tempting to think of the evaluation plan as something you tack on once the program plan is in place. But the evaluation plan is an integral part of the program. “It’s the program’s mirror,” said Barbara Floersch, chief of training for The Grantsmanship Center in Los Angeles, Calif. “It reflects the reality of what’s actually happening rather than the theory of what you thought the program would look like and accomplish.”

When I was leading Organizational Development strategies at my former company, we used to call it the “getting hit by a bus” scenario. Then someone decided that was too morbid so it was rephrased to the “winning the lottery” scenario. In either case, we used the scenario to help the C suite and other senior leaders to think through who would replace their most critical employees if they no longer worked at the company. If your best and brightest employee won the lottery one evening and didn’t show up for work the next day, how would operations continue with minimal disruption to employees, customers, and stakeholders?