359. New Year Prep Talk: How to Create a Fundraising Roadmap - Barbara O'Reilly
Overview
Meet Barbara. With her 30 years of experience in fundraising, she understands fundraising is more than just raising money. She’s bringing her roadmap📍🗺️ at just the right time, as many of us are looking toward the new year. Join us to talk about how to outline this strategy, conditions for growth, and how to prioritize capacity building. Don’t miss this hopeful conversation that will help you exhale during the busyness of December😌💨
💡Learn
- How to create a Fundraising Roadmap + Strategy for the New Year
- Conditions that lead to growth
- Baking capacity building into your strategy
Today’s Guest
Barbara O’Reilly, CFRE, Founder and Principal, Windmill Consulting
Episode Highlights
- Barbara’s story and journey to where she is today (1:40)
- Mindset and goals moving into the new year (6:30)
- Data and research around fundraising plans (9:00)
- Developing conditions for growth (17:45)
- Creating ownership throughout the whole organization (23:00)
- A powerful moment of philanthropy in Barbara’s life (36:00)
- Barbara’s One Good Thing: Pause and build in time each and every day to do something that connects with our donors. (39:40)
For more information and episode details visit: weareforgood.com/episode/359.
About our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you both SEE and activate donors at every level, and Virtuous is the platform to help you do just that. Virtuous helps charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising, volunteer management, and online giving, and we love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement. Learn more today at virtuous.org.
Join us at The Spread!
Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛
We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.
Learn more and save your free spot today.
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Overview
Meet Barbara. With her 30 years of experience in fundraising, she understands fundraising is more than just raising money. She’s bringing her roadmap📍🗺️ at just the right time, as many of us are looking toward the new year. Join us to talk about how to outline this strategy, conditions for growth, and how to prioritize capacity building. Don’t miss this hopeful conversation that will help you exhale during the busyness of December😌💨
💡Learn
- How to create a Fundraising Roadmap + Strategy for the New Year
- Conditions that lead to growth
- Baking capacity building into your strategy
Today’s Guest
Barbara O’Reilly, CFRE, Founder and Principal, Windmill Consulting
Episode Highlights
- Barbara’s story and journey to where she is today (1:40)
- Mindset and goals moving into the new year (6:30)
- Data and research around fundraising plans (9:00)
- Developing conditions for growth (17:45)
- Creating ownership throughout the whole organization (23:00)
- A powerful moment of philanthropy in Barbara’s life (36:00)
- Barbara’s One Good Thing: Pause and build in time each and every day to do something that connects with our donors. (39:40)
For more information and episode details visit: weareforgood.com/episode/359.
About our Sponsor Virtuous
You know we believe Everyone Matters - and we’ve witnessed the greatest philanthropic movements happen when you both SEE and activate donors at every level, and Virtuous is the platform to help you do just that. Virtuous helps charities reimagine generosity through responsive fundraising, volunteer management, and online giving, and we love it because this approach builds trust and loyalty through personalized engagement. Learn more today at virtuous.org.
Join us at The Spread!
Givebutter's biggest innovation event of the year is here — The Spread, built entirely around co-creating with nonprofits like yours. 💛
We Are For Good is joining forces with GB to host in-person hackathon meetups on Friday, Oct. 2, in New York, Seattle, LA, Denver, and Indianapolis, so you can build alongside other nonprofits in the community.
Learn more and save your free spot today.
//
Join the We Are For Good Community—completely free.
Join fellow changemakers, share takeaways from this working session, and keep collaborating in a space built for connection, inspiration, and real impact: www.weareforgoodcommunity.com
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