Do Your Good

Success can be difficult to measure. How do we know how well the nonprofit is able to tackle the societal issues we want to solve? Sybil explains why it is important to have a good plan of action to measure impact, and how to approach your giving in a way that will reach your goals.

Episode Highlights:

• Measuring the success of your donations
• Successfully gauging the impact of your giving strategy
• Checklist for developing a four-step personalized plan.

Sybil Ackerman-Munson Bio:

With over 20 years of experience as a nonprofit professional and foundation advisor, I work with philanthropic institutions and foundations interested in successful, high-impact grant making, so you can make a real and lasting positive contribution to the world on your terms.

Links:

• Learn more about intermediaries - https://www.doyourgood.com/hire-an-intermediary 

• Course to learn the three funder types - https://www.doyourgood.com/offers/xtHUdoBG/checkout 

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Crack the Code: Sybil’s Successful Guide to Philanthropy

Become even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools you’ll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy.

Sybil offers resources that include special free short video mini-courses, templates, and key checklists, and words of advice summarized in easy-to-view PDFs.    

• Check out Sybil’s website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at

https://www.doyourgood.com

Connect with Do Your Good

• https://www.facebook.com/doyourgood

• https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood

Would you like to talk with Sybil directly?

Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at [email protected]!

Success can be difficult to measure. How do we know how well the nonprofit is able to tackle the societal issues we want to solve? Sybil explains why it is important to have a good plan of action to measure impact, and how to approach your giving in a way that will reach your goals.

{You can hear the full episode on Monday, August 28th}

Fred is excited to join Sybil today to discuss budgets and finances. Donors often do a good job at asking for very specific and detailed project proposals but then fail to be equally specific in their financial and budget requests. They discuss how to focus your request for the nonprofit’s financial information that aligns with your proposal request. This way you won’t have the nonprofit doing busywork. 

It is crucial to carefully consider the financial stability and potential of a nonprofit before donating, but unnecessary to ask for too much irrelevant financial information that you may not even use in your actual decision to fund the organization.

Episode Highlights:

• Importance of a understanding nonprofit's financial stability without asking for everything and the kitchen sink

Sybil Ackerman-Munson Bio:

With over 20 years of experience as a nonprofit professional and foundation advisor, I work with philanthropic institutions and foundations interested in successful, high-impact grant making, so you can make a real and lasting positive contribution to the world on your terms.

Links:

• IRS - https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/tax-exempt-organization-search

• Charity Navigator - https://www.charitynavigator.org/

• Candid Charity Check - https://www.guidestar.org/

Free mini-courses.

• Be Collaborative - https://www.doyourgood.com/offers/PXGEYkWh/checkout
• Be Finance Savvy - https://www.doyourgood.com/offers/kQwFWG4P/checkout
• Be Legal - https://www.doyourgood.com/offers/U8SFR3mR/checkout

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• https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/141-Understanding-Collaborative-Campaign-Budgets-Dedeee%20Wilner
• https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/140-Helping-Nonprofits-and-Organizations-Create-Collaborative%20Budgets
• https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/139-Sybil-Speaks-Cut-Through-the-Red-Tape-of-a-Nonprofits-Finances

Crack the Code: Sybil’s Successful Guide to Philanthropy

Become even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools you’ll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy.

Sybil offers resources that include special free short video mini-courses, templates, and key checklists, and words of advice summarized in easy-to-view PDFs.

• Check out Sybil’s website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at

https://www.doyourgood.com

Connect with Do Your Good

• https://www.facebook.com/doyourgood

• https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood

Would you like to talk with Sybil directly?

Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at [email protected]!

Fred is excited to join Sybil today to discuss budgets and finances. Donors often do a good job at asking for very specific and detailed project proposals but then fail to be equally specific in their financial and budget requests. They discuss how to focus your request for the nonprofit’s financial information that aligns with your proposal request. This way you won’t have the nonprofit doing busywork. 

It is crucial to carefully consider the financial stability and potential of a nonprofit before donating, but unnecessary to ask for too much irrelevant financial information that you may not even use in your actual decision to fund the organization.

{You can hear the full episode on Monday, August 21st}

Dedee Wilner–Nugent joins Sybil today to share with us the dos and don’ts of financial planning for nonprofits.  She shares her knowledge and experience in funding capital campaigns and how to fund collaborative campaigns that involve many different organizations. This means it can be tricky to know exactly how to get a budget to take charge of this type of collaborative budget. She also talks about capital campaigns and how to ask for what you need in a financial plan related to this very special kind of campaign work.

Episode Highlights:

• Funding collaborative campaigns
• The tips to use when you are interested in funding multiple organizations that working on one key issue and problem to solve

Dedee Wilner-Nugent Bio:

Dedee Wilner-Nugent began her career as a fundraising professional as the Executive Director of a small arts organization and then as a Development Director for a non-profit emergency animal hospital. Her experience managing capital campaigns began in 2001, when she joined The Collins Group, a consulting firm serving organizations in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and California.

After a decade of successful, high-paced campaign work, Dedee took a 7-year break from consulting to serve as Director of Public Affairs for Central City Concern, one of the largest social service, healthcare, and housing agencies in Oregon.

In 2018 Dedee returned to capital campaign management as a capital campaign advisor with The Varga Group, a highly regarded boutique fundraising firm in Oregon. Five years later, Dedee was excited to join Capital Campaign Pro as a campaign advisor and to begin offering campaign expertise to nonprofit organizations across the USA.

Links:

• Website: https://capitalcampaignpro.com

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dedee

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·        https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/104-fred-ackerman-munson

·        https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/71-sybil-speaks

·        https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/70-shakira-releford

Crack the Code: Sybil’s Successful Guide to Philanthropy

Become even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools you’ll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy.

Sybil offers resources that include special free short video mini-courses, templates, and key checklists, and words of advice summarized in easy-to-view PDFs.

• Check out Sybil’s website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at

https://www.doyourgood.com

Connect with Do Your Good

• https://www.facebook.com/doyourgood

• https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood

Would you like to talk with Sybil directly?

Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at [email protected]!

Dedee Wilner–Nugent joins Sybil today to share with us the dos and don’ts of financial planning for nonprofits.  She shares her knowledge and experience in funding capital campaigns and how to fund collaborative campaigns that involve many different organizations. This means it can be tricky to know exactly how to get a budget to take charge of this type of collaborative budget. She also talks about capital campaigns and how to ask for what you need in a financial plan related to this very special kind of campaign work.

{You can hear the full episode on Monday, August 14th}

Lisa DeBruyckere is a seasoned consultant who has worked with nonprofits since the age of 18 and . knows how to support diverse organizations to come together and create joint budgets to solve major societal challenges.

Lisa shares her experience working with organizations like the Ocean Science Trust and the Oregon Marine Reserve Partnership, helping them articulate their needs and develop a strategic plan and budget that  brings together diverse interests, such as researchers, scientists, and other organizations, and to articulate a shared vision. 

Episode Highlights:

• The best way  a donor can ask nonprofits with different expertise to stop competing with one another and instead create a joint budget and project together

• How a strategic and focused plan can help serve as the basis of an effective collaborative budget.

Lisa DeBruyckere Bio:

Lisa DeBruyckere has bachelor’s degrees in journalism and Natural Resource Management and a Master's Degree in Natural Resource Management from the University of Maine at Orono. Lisa worked for 21 years in state natural resource agencies and universities in Missouri and Oregon - 7 years in executive levels - before starting her own natural resource consulting business, Creative Resource Strategies, in 2002. Lisa enjoys working with agencies, nonprofits, industry, academia and others to articulate and realize a shared vision for the health and well-being of natural resources and the many people that benefit from their stewardship.​

Links:

• Website: https://www.createstrat.com

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-debruyckere-6a563152

• Email: [email protected]

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Crack the Code: Sybil’s Successful Guide to Philanthropy

Become even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools you’ll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy.

Sybil offers resources that include special free short video mini-courses, templates, and key checklists, and words of advice summarized in easy-to-view PDFs.    

• Check out Sybil’s website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at

https://www.doyourgood.com

Connect with Do Your Good

• https://www.facebook.com/doyourgood

• https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood

Would you like to talk with Sybil directly?

Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at [email protected]!

Lisa DeBruyckere is a seasoned consultant who has worked with nonprofits since the age of 18 and knows how to support diverse organizations to come together and create joint budgets to solve major societal challenges.

Lisa shares her experience working with organizations like the Ocean Science Trust and the Oregon Marine Reserve Partnership, helping them articulate their needs and develop a strategic plan and budget that brings together diverse interests, such as researchers, scientists, and other organizations, and to articulate a shared vision.

{You can hear the full episode on Monday, August 7th}

This month's theme is about asking for only what you need from a nonprofit's budget and finances. Donors often ask for more than what's necessary and that creates busywork for the nonprofit, which can waste time and money. Sybil does not want this to happen to you. To avoid this potential pitfall, consider your donor identity, whether you're a sustainer, campaigner, or launcher donor and go through Sybil’s simple training that she offers in this episode so that you can ask the right questions, and get down to the business of answering only the most important budget and financial questions.

Episode Highlights:

• Know your donor identity in order to ask for the financial information you truly need

• Understand how to support the nonprofits in creating collaborative budgets that propel the issue you care about forward

Sybil Ackerman-Munson Bio:

With over 20 years of experience as a nonprofit professional and foundation advisor, I work with philanthropic institutions and foundations interested in successful, high-impact grant making, so you can make a true and lasting positive contribution to the world on your terms.

Links:

• Course to Be Finance Savvy https://www.doyourgood.com/offers/kQwFWG4P/checkout

• Know your Funder Type https://www.doyourgood.com/offers/xtHUdoBG/checkout

• How to read and Interpret an Organizatins 990s https://www.doyourgood.com/how-to-read-intrepret-990

•  Be Collaborative https://www.doyourgood.com/offers/PXGEYkWh/checkout

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·        https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/130-sybil-fred-ackerman-munson

·        https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/51-sybil-speaks

·        https://www.doyourgood.com/blog/8-sybil-speaks

Crack the Code: Sybil’s Successful Guide to Philanthropy

Become even better at what you do as Sybil teaches you the strategies as well as the tools you’ll need to avoid mistakes and make a career out of philanthropy.

Sybil offers resources that include special free short video mini-courses, templates, and key checklists, and words of advice summarized in easy-to-view PDFs.

• Check out Sybil’s website with all the latest opportunities to learn from Sybil at

https://www.doyourgood.com

Connect with Do Your Good

• https://www.facebook.com/doyourgood

• https://www.instagram.com/doyourgood

Would you like to talk with Sybil directly?

Send in your inquiries through her website https://www.doyourgood.com/ or you can email her directly at [email protected]!

This month's theme is about asking for only what you need from a nonprofit's budget and finances. Donors often ask for more than what's necessary and that creates busy work for the nonprofit, which can waste time and money. Sybil does not want this to happen to you. To avoid this potential pitfall, consider your donor identity, whether you're a sustainer, campaigner, or launcher donor, and go through Sybil’s simple training that she offers in this episode so that you can ask the right questions, and get down to the business of answering only the most important budget and financial questions.

{You can hear the full episode on Monday, July 31st}