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We’ll look at some of the most popular social platforms, provide some advanced tactics and tips for dialing in your campaigns, and teach you how to efficiently manage multi-channel advertising without losing your mind.

If your job is to get funding for a nonprofit program, you know how intense the competition is. Creating a grant writing calendar for your organization will keep you focused, on time, and in charge of all the details that can make or break an application for funding. Once in place, your grant calendar can be a great tool year after year. View it as a road map for future grant fundraising success. True, it takes time and maybe a little compulsive behavior. However, the upfront work will save you countless hours and resources over the year.

This document takes a close look at why intermediaries such as ESOs and investors may face barriers when thinking about gender inclusion. This 4 page chapter unpacks common challenges that ESOs may face when talking to investors about gender lens investing, and suggests talking points to overcome barriers. Pages 15-19

Table comparing CRM systems suitable for small and medium charities.

Learn how to draw out your organization's, 'sacred bundle' of storytelling.

Do you ever wish you could get all of your board members involved in donor and fund development? Then this workshop is what you need to create a program where all your board members will be working with you on resource development.

Although this article is about 'collaborating with other influencers', it can be equally effective strategy for organisations that are just starting out. The key is to find people with a similar following size to you, or ideally slightly higher. You'll also want their audience to be similar to yours. Contact these people and propose a short term sharing group e.g. each week everyone in the group shares a post about one of the members of the group until everyone has been shared.

Often, ESOs will run or connect entrepreneurs to pitching events, but judging without bias can be tricky. This document suggests 4 activities we can do to eliminate bias during judging of innovations and ensure we select innovations in an inclusive manner. Page 36

Donors want to be sure that the money they give is used honestly and effectively to carry out the organisation’s aims. They see a strong governing board as a safety net to protect the survival of your NPO. Here’s a list of some practical examples on how your board can fulfil its key roles and responsibilities to govern

Sending out a high volume of grant applications, tracking their status, managing your contact list and keeping an eye on upcoming opportunities can feel a lot like juggling. With this non-profit grant tracking template, you can do it all in one, easy-to-manage interface that not only keeps you on top of various deadlines and dependencies, but allows you to collaborate effectively with your team.

Name one important skill you mastered the first time you tried it. Perhaps you can find an example or two, but let’s face it – we become good at things by learning basic principles, followed by lots of practice. Fundraising is no different. It’s a skill to be mastered. If you want your board, staff, or any group to master fundraising, you need help them learn in an organized way, then create opportunities to try out their new skills.

How to develop a fundraising strategy for charities and non-profits. Video by the Institute of Fundraising.

Use this tagline creator template to brainstorm lots of potential taglines for your organisation.

You know how I feel about editorial calendars. They are the single most important tool for a communications director. So I get VERY excited when I hear a good nonprofit editorial calendar story. When Sharon Sharp, the marketing and communications associate at the SPCA Tampa Bay, told me the story of how she launched an editorial calendar that no one used and then changed it up so that now everyone uses it, I knew you’d want to hear the story too.

These MS Excel worksheets/templates will help you understand and build your organization’s budget according to its spending on programs and functions.

Hashtags for every day of the week - Reach more people, build your following and increase your social proof

In a normal year, many nonprofit organizations find the task of searching for potential donors and funders to be daunting and arduous. Given this year is anything but normal, even nonprofits with extensive fundraising experience are finding it increasingly difficult to find funding for their programs and services. As previous sources become unavailable, the search for new funding will become more critical than ever. As a result, it is important to know how to find grants by reviewing best practices for finding potential funders. Put your organization on a funder’s radar and increase your chances of getting funding by forging personal connections with grantmakers and asking well-crafted quest

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.

The Business Model Canvas for Social Entreprises that includes values such as Purpose and Impact.

This document is an evaluation of a project carried out by Digital Opportunity Trust in Ethiopia to support youth and women-owned MSEs. The evaulation assessed whether or not the project met its stated objectives and if participants recieved services as expected. It includes lessons learned and recommendations for future interventions.

This document provides a checklist ESOs can refer to when designing and delivering programming to support everyone's active and equal participation and in consideration of different learning styles and preferences. Page 26

Your Instagram bio is your business card, portfolio, and website home page all wrapped up into one. And with just seconds to make a great first impression, your Instagram bio is one of the best ways to convert Instagram visitors into followers. Here's 8 tips to creating a killer bio!

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.

This template has been designed to help voluntary and community organisations develop their own fundraising strategy. This template can be amended to suit your organisation.

This document provides tried and tested tools to support businesses to be more gender inclusive. It covers a few key themes of business development training: Sales, Marketing, Market Research, Customer Care, HR, Page 8

How to find, research and write content that engages your audience.

An extensive checklist of practices and ideas around creating an inclusive culture at the workplace. Page 27