Free Capital Campaign Resources
Guides, checklists, webinars, and podcasts to help you on your campaign journey.
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New Book: A Board Member’s Guide to Capital Campaign Fundraising
Discover the step-by-step framework nonprofit board members need to confidently lead successful capital campaigns, raise major gifts, and help their organizations secure game-changing funding.
General Help
- Free 45-minute call with a campaign expert
- Get answers to all your burning questions
- Absolutely no strings attached
- A complete campaign checklist and guide
- Break your campaign down into manageable steps
- 7 campaign phases explained in full detail
- A complete overview of capital campaigns
- Get a handle on capital campaign basics
- Understand the capital campaign timeline
- Find out how prepared your organization really is
- Learn about your weaknesses and strengths
- Identify areas for improvement before your campaign
- Learn how prepared your development office is
- Take a closer look your office’s capacity
- Evaluate your office’s readiness in 17 critical areas
- Find out if your systems can handle a campaign
- Learn what technology you’ll need for your campaign
- Discover what to improve BEFORE your campaign starts
- Weekly discussions about capital campaigns
- Common campaign questions answered by experts
- Listen through your favorite app, anywhere, anytime
- See the pattern and quantity of gifts you’ll need for your campaign
- Help your board understand what campaign success will take
- Interactive and printable
- See real-world data from hundreds of recent campaigns
- Compare goals, timelines, and results to national benchmarks
- Discover trends shaping capital campaign fundraising
Get the support you need to succeed.
With our approach, you get the support, expertise, and guidance you need — plus all the tools and materials — to make your campaign a success.
Board Readiness
- Roles and responsibilities of board members
- Learn to engage board members in your campaign
- Share this PDF eBook with your entire board
- Find out if your board members are up to snuff
- Identify strengths and weakness of your board
- Quick assessment; takes less than 10 minutes
- Library of resources on all board readiness
- Articles to answer your board-related questions
- Best practices to guide your board through a campaign
Feasibility Studies
- A complete overview of feasibility studies
- Sample interview question topics (and answer analysis tips)
- Tips for choosing a consultant and the best study model
- Utilize a study that will engage potential donors
- Talk directly with to your best campaign donors
- Discover how to save money and raise bigger gifts early on
- Discover the value of a Guided Feasibility Study
- Engage your best campaign donors directly
- Learn how this model can apply to your campaign
Uncertain Times
- Get your questions answered live each week
- Learn from Co-Founders Amy Eisenstein and Andrea Kihlstedt
- Timely updates about the nonprofit sector
- Resetting your strategy following COVID-19
- Thinking outside-the-box to guide your nonprofit
- How to create lasting resiliency for your organization
- Practical advice to keep in touch with donors
- How to deal with economic instability
- Ways to continue fundraising through a crisis
Campaign Phases
- Discover the seven key phases of a campaign
- Learn what steps happen and when
- Gain strategy and insight for handling each step
- Library of resources on raising early dollars
- Find articles about leadership level gifts
- Learn from campaign experts and best practices
- Library of resources for engaging volunteers and donors
- Learn how to prevent annual fund sabotage
- Learn from campaign experts and best practices
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Wisdom from first woman African American Chair of AFP
- Tips for women and black fundraisers
- Lean about AADO and its important mission
- How to incorporate DEI in your campaign
- Why DEI practices will attract more donors
- Learn what Capital Campaign Pro is doing about DEI
- Increase a sense of belonging through a campaign
- Discover 7 ways to increase your cultural competency
- Learn how ‘belonging’ is at the core of your work
