Fundraising
Every award starts with someone who gave
You spend the year giving money away carefully. Someone had to raise it first — and until now that happened somewhere else entirely, on another team, in another system, reconciled by hand at year end.
Your best fundraising story is already in your awards data
The student who graduated because of a scholarship. The grant that hit every milestone. The program that doubled the people it reached. That is what moves a donor to give again — and it has been sitting in a system your fundraising side could not reach.
Now it is the same system.
Know where every relationship stands
Who you are getting to know, who has been asked, who gave, and who is owed a thank you. Fundraising moves at the pace of relationships, and this is the board that keeps track of them without anyone maintaining a spreadsheet on the side.
Find the people who already care
Somewhere there is a foundation funding exactly what you do, and nobody on your team has heard of it. CommunityForce goes looking — and brings back who they are, what they fund and why it thinks they are a match, with its sources shown.
You decide who is worth approaching. Nothing reaches a donor without a person putting it there.
Make the ask, and give them somewhere to say yes
Write to the right people rather than everyone, and see exactly who will receive it before it goes. The first draft is written for you; what actually sends is your call.
Then publish a campaign with your story and your progress, and let people give in a few taps — once, or every month.
Then show them what it paid for
The gift funds an award. The award goes to someone. That outcome is already in your reports — so the thank-you writes itself from real numbers, and the next ask starts from evidence instead of adjectives.
That is the whole reason for putting both halves in one place.