LibGuides: Funding Your New Nonprofit: New Nonprofit Planning

Mission and Vision

Mission and Vision Statements - The Bridgespan Group
Mission and vision statements help explain a nonprofit's reason for existence and goals in a single compelling sentence.
20 Exceptional Nonprofit Vision Statement Examples - Classy
Check out these 20 mission statement examples for guidance and inspiration, along with tips on how to write an impactful nonprofit mission statement.
30 EXAMPLE VISION STATEMENTS - Top Nonprofits
The following vision statements were selected from the top 100 nonprofits (based on a series of web, social, and financial metrics).
Nonprofit Mission Statement - BoardSource
Here are five ideas to ensure a productive process to allow your board to create or revise, and then use your mission to advance the work.

Successfully Starting a New Nonprofit - Foundation Group
How to navigate 10 issues and challenges facing every social entrepreneur, from Foundation Group, Inc.

11 Must Do's for Starting a Nonprofit - Greg McRay - Foundation Group
There’s a lot that goes into starting a nonprofit. Here’s 11 things to consider…because 10 is never enough!

Illinois Nonprofit Principles and Best Practices 2020
Forefront offers The Nonprofit Best Practices guide. This book is designed to help grantmakers and nonprofits make specific, concrete steps to ensure adherence to the high ethical standards and strong principals expected of them.

Join Philanthropy Club
“The Philanthropy Club of Illinois (Phi Club) aims to level the playing field in access to funding for all Illinois based nonprofit organizations. To achieve this, the Philanthropy Club offers no-cost, virtual discussions with funders and subject matter experts on topics related to sustainable fundraising.”

Nonprofit Start Up Guide - Bryte Bridge
Go from a great idea to a fully functioning 501c3 with this in-depth guide from our partners at BryteBridge Nonprofit Solutions. The guide goes over the key business fundamentals that help build a strong organizational foundation. These fundamentals are presented in logical stages of importance to be implemented as resources become available.

Business Planning for Nonprofits - National Council of Nonprofits
The business planning process takes into account the nonprofit’s mission and vision, the role of the board, and external environmental factors, such as the climate for fundraising.

Business Planning for Nonprofits - Campbell and Haley - The BridgeSpan Group
The business-planning process offers a nonprofit's decision makers a rare opportunity to step back and look at their organization as a whole.

Fundraising Planning Worksheet ATool for Creating Your Annual Fundraising Plan BY STEPHANIE ROTH, MIMI HO AND PRISCILLA HUNG
This article presents a systematic way of creating an annual fundraising plan for your organization. The focus of this process (like the focus of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal) is on strategies for building a base of individual donors in order to create a reliable and repeatable source of income. The six-step planning process this worksheet takes you through will help you create a plan that is based on the realities of your organization’s funding base, infrastructure, and fundraising team
Intro to Prospect Research: Individual Donors Fundraising Planner
Individual Donor Fundraising Plan
DIVERSIFY FUNDRAISING STRATEGIES: ENSURE LONG-TERM PROGRAM SUSTAINABILITY - Dr. Susan G. Weinberger
Increase Funding (Planning for Success)
How to Ensure Sustainability of Your Program
Organizational Funding Reflection Worksheet

Nonprofit Funding Ecosystem - ACSD
Funding Types, Examples and Definitions.
Nonprofit Financial Planning Made Easy eBook - Jody Blazek
Nonprofit Financial Planning Made Easy presents straightforward strategies to make financial management a more smooth and successful process. Filled with practical forms and checklists to aid you in planning and managing your organizations' financial resources, Nonprofit Financial Planning Made Easy equips your nonprofit with step-by-step solutions to the dilemmas involved in keeping financial resources and the mission in balance.

Fundraising Planning Worksheet A Tool for Creating Your Annual Fundraising Plan BY STEPHANIE ROTH, MIMI HO AND PRISCILLA HUNG
This article presents a systematic way of creating an annual fundraising plan for your organization.
How to Create a Fundraising Plan - Network for Good and Windmill Hill Consulting
Because having a defined plan is essential to fundraising success,we hope this guide helps you get organized and focused on setting fundraising goals and planning out your activities to meet those goals.
This plan was developed by Barbara O’Reilly, founder of Windmill Hill Consulting, with additional help from Liz Ragland, Senior Content Associate at Network for Good.