Webinar: Thursday, November 6 | 2 p.m. ET

Where strategic planning and fundraising meet

If you’re dreaming bigger for your mission, you need more than good intentions—you need a clear path forward. This session shows how a strong strategic plan can rally passionate donors, inspire fundraiser confidence, and fuel long-term growth.

Funding for Good’s experts will outline WHY every organization needs a well-crafted strategic plan and HOW to use it to leverage both dollars and donors. This workshop breaks down the top ways a strategic plan contributes to fundraising success and what donors are looking for in your written plan. Finally, walk away with actionable tips and tools to cover the cost of your next planning process.

Learning objectives:

• Use strategic planning to strengthen your fundraising
• Understand why donors ask for your plan
• Learn what donors look for in strategy
• Craft language that attracts more funding
• Discover why donors fund the planning process
• Learn how to leverage dollars to fund your next planning process
• Grab free tools and templates to grow for good

This webinar will be recorded for future viewing. Can’t make it? Go ahead and register anyway and we’ll email it to you after the live session!

> This webinar is limited to 1,000 live attendees <

Speaker

Marie Palacios

Marie Palacios, Lead Consultant for Funding for Good, is an expert educator, consultant, and facilitator who helps leaders achieve their goals. She combines evidence-based facilitation methods and two decades of professional experience to facilitate dynamic and productive meetings. Her specialties include consensus building, leadership development, and strategic planning for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Over the past two decades, Marie has worn every hat imaginable in the business world: volunteer, board member, program director, executive director, and development consultant. Marie is bilingual and uses her Spanish skills to provide language access and diversity training services for businesses and local government sectors. Marie is a native of Morganton, NC, where she lives with her husband, three daughters, and one spoiled rescue dog named “Mako.”