A few secrets everyone should know before starting a new nonprofit organization – with Gigi Lawrence
#027 – Today I am speaking with Gigi Lawrence. Gigi founded Nonprofit for Newbies, a consulting and networking community, to help people start new nonprofits. Gigi is a mompreneur who started off in the financial consulting world, but didn’t feel fulfilled. She knew she wanted to help others, but was unsure how. After she took a job as a nonprofit financial literacy program director she knew she had found her calling. Gigi says….
“If your foundation isn’t structured correctly and you don’t know how to explain your process. You don’t know how to explain your programs in a way that others are going to understand and be motivated to move forward with those services or that program and being involved…..
…you have to be able to sell yourself, sell your organization, and in order to sell it, you have to know what you’re selling and you have to believe in it.”
Nonprofit for Newbies either advises or refers “newbies” to one of the independent contractors in their network on:
- Starting their nonprofit
- Grant writing
- Writing their business plan
- Fundraising
- Marketing
- Accounting
- Board Development, and
- Mindset
As of this interview, her Facebook Group has over 10k members.
Gigi has a ton of free resources on her website
https://www.nonprofitfornewbies.com/social
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4 Key Takeaways
#1 Be able to clearly explain your programs and what you do.
#2 Get board members who will help you execute your mission.
#3 Have people you are serving represented on your board.
#4 Get local high school or college students to help with your social media at little or no cost.
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