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Impact Powerhouse Method
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The Impact Powerhouse Method™
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There are four distinct, but interrelated reasons why some nonprofits succeed and others fail: Your Leadership, Your Engagement, Your Fundraising and Your Plan. And when you understand how these four elements work together properly, you can create an effective and highly impactful nonprofit organization and you can do so in record time. That's why we've created the Impact Powerhouse Method™ - to help nonprofit leaders do just that.
The Impact Powerhouse Method™ is a strategic process developed by Raiser Sharp Consulting that involves turning your nonprofit into a high impact organization and building the support systems to sustain it.
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Based on our own research and 20 years of real-world experience, we have learned that highly successful nonprofits utilize four simple things to help transform them into high impact powerhouses:
Leadership
Engagement
Funding
Strategy
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Leadership Leverage
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Conventional wisdom says that scaling your nonprofit starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. Research done by the Stanford Social Innovation Review of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others. In other words, they leverage their leadership.
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Do this right, and your reputation will precede you. You won't often deal with questions about impact and credibility. People will come to know and trust you and they will want to help. You'll just need to show them how they can.
There are five core components of Leadership Leverage:
Knowing your "who's"
Creating evangelists to share your message
Nurturing your networks to build your audience
Sharing your leadership to manage your work
Mastering the art of adaptation
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Powerhouse Positioning
In order to become a powerhouse, you have to position your organization in the marketplace so that others see you in the way you want them to see you, not necessarily the way you are at the moment. This takes a bit of analysis, self-reflection, and understanding your organization inside and out. You also have to share your story and promote your organizational superpowers. That's really what will take you from being unknown to being a the top of the charts.
The five core components of Powerhouse Positioning are:
Determining what makes you unique
Deciding what audiences to target
Knowing your value propositions
Developing bold messaging and storytelling
Showing off your daring brand identity
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Money Magnets
There are ways of dealing with the marketplace that are magnetic and there are ways that are repulsive. Until you learn what attracts your potential donors, and then provide it in ways meaningful to them, you'll always be driving them further away from you and never make the leap to having enough resources to support your important work.
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Creating Money Magnets does exactly that. It creates drawing power and it is purposeful, natural and irresistible.
There are two core components of Money Magnets:
Deploying a donor funnel to attract, engage and convert individual prospects into donors
Creating win-win opportunities for partners (foundation, corporate & earned income ventures)
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Prosperity Plan
We’ve been taught that Rome wasn’t built in a day.
You put in the long hours and years of hard work and you’ll get there. But this thinking doesn't take into account the incredible passion and innovation of the nonprofit leader. It is a concept that is flawed and outdated.
We believe -and have proven- that there is a better, faster way of getting there.
We call it the Prosperity Plan. It's a way of growing an organization in way less time than most other nonprofits are doing because it doesn't buy into the myths that the only way to scale a nonprofit is by site-by-site or dollar-by-dollar.
There are three core components to creating a Prosperity Plan:
Creating a One Page Strategic Plan (OPSP)
Developing a Project Backlog
Monitoring your Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
Put It All Together and Begin Fulfilling Your Mission Today!
Say goodbye to feeling alone and confused about what to do next.
Simply by using these steps to position your nonprofit as the high impact nonprofit you want it to be, very soon you could be…
Attracting new & highly engaged donors
Building a highly talented team & using your leaders more effectively
Knowing exactly how to grow your nonprofit year after year
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Raiser Sharp Consulting's guiding principle No. 1: Sleeves up. This isn't a sales call. It's a solutions call. Bring your most pressing problem to our first meeting, and we'll strategize together on how to solve it. After that? We’ll start taking immediate steps to quickly grow your impact.
Raiser Sharp Consulting is a nonprofit consultancy focused on actionable planning, and building strong board and staff leadership teams to help grow your organization.
We raise leaders. We raise exposure. We raise funds.
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