Financial Access for US Nonprofits: New Empirical Data, Stakeholder Perspectives and Recommendations

As the calendar year begins to wind down and you think about the new year, are you also thinking about how to strengthen your grant seeking strategy in the upcoming year? Starting your year off with a strong plan and clear goals in place will ensure that you secure the funding necessary to achieve your goals for grant revenue. Viewing “Start Your 2019 Grant Seeking Off Right!” will provide you with a strong understanding of your success in 2018 and how to set goals for 2019 that will help expand your grant seeking strategy and revenue.

Over the past two decades, Americans have significantly changed their giving behavior. Most notably, participation in charitable giving of American households and individuals has been declining since 2000. In 2020, the onset of the ongoing global pandemic has presented numerous challenges and shifts for the philanthropic sector. The Giving Environment series, produced by researchers at the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, looks at pre-pandemic trends in charitable giving, understanding donor decisions in recent years, new models of giving such as subscription giving, and the growing significance of engaging donors.

Fundraising is a critical part of the work of nonprofits, but unless someone’s a hired fundraiser, chances are they are reluctant to fundraise. Happy to share the vision? Yes. Ready to roll up their sleeves and get involved? Yes. But ask someone for money? That’s a hard no. Learn how understanding the neuroscience behind our behaviors can help unleash the fundraising potential of reluctant fundraisers. Learning Objectives: Understand how our brains work when it comes to fundraising Discover why everything you might have tried to get “reluctant fundraisers” to fundraise has been in vain Learn alternatives that will actually get those around you rolling up their sleeves for fundraising.

People of faith are generous – religious causes represent the largest slice of annual giving at 27% (Giving USA). Despite this, most churches don’t have a planned giving strategy — but they should.