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Five Ways to Foster Long-lasting Board Engagement

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Running a youth-centered nonprofit has many unique challenges, but an engaged and invested board should not be one of them. If one of your biggest problems in running your organization is engaging your board members in fundraising, this article is for you. Here at Fordable Fundraising, we have found that incorporating these five practices reduces revolving door syndrome and encourages board members to engage in fundraising more deeply:
1: Define Each Board Member’s Role
Whether you have board members already or you are looking to onboard new members, defining board members’ roles based on their positions and key strengths will provide a solid foundation of executive support to meet initiatives. This can be as simple as a one-page job description or a detailed summary of this role. Having your board members be part of this conversation can lead to more buy-in and better outcomes overall.

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Amp Up Your Attitude to Fundraise From Individual Givers for Your Nonprofit

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People often talk about the art and science of fundraising. And they’re right. Raising money, especially gifts from individuals, takes a strategic mix of savvy relationship building and effective implementation of the right processes, plans and metrics. But there’s a third piece of the puzzle that we don’t talk as much about … attitude. Attitude dictates our level of confidence to engage donors, it impacts whether we approach our work with an abundance mentality or a scarcity mentality, and it infuses all the training and tools we’ve been given over the years with the organizational will to finally put them to use.

Leonard Witt

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The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange is made up of people like you who are interested in doing what is best for at-risk children, including the people who work with children. We believe doing what’s best means staying well-informed about what’s going on in government, courts, schools, nonprofit treatment and prevention programs, and following new research and initiatives that could benefit children and families. We called the JJIE.org, the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange because we believe our audience collectively knows more about juvenile justice and child welfare issues than we do. Plus we want to provide a place for everyone to share their ideas, research, expertise and experiences with our 17,000 unique monthly visitors. Many of you have written comments, which bring new and unique perspectives to the solid journalism we do each day.