{"id":7182,"date":"2010-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.causevox.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2024-05-08T19:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T19:06:35","slug":"thinking-through-campaign-strategy-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/blog\/thinking-through-campaign-strategy-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Through Campaign Strategy &#8211; Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"whiteboard by causevox, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/causevox\/4839854143\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/causevox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4839854143_92471717bc.jpg\" alt=\"whiteboard\" width=\"500\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who do we target?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;What is our message?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;How do we set our goals? What are our goals?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few of the strategy questions that go into the planning of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/digital-fundraising\/\">online fundraising campaign<\/a>. Strategy guides the campaign, presents a holistic view of issues, and cultivates a specific direction for the campaign. A framework is simply a way to think.<\/p>\n<p>Our goal is for each of you to have the best fundraising campaign possible, so we developed a Strategy Framework to help you make this happen. Here&#8217;s a way to visualize this line of thought:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CauseVox: Campaign Strategy Framework by causevox, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/causevox\/4830439303\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/causevox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4830439303_f79c8a340b.jpg\" alt=\"CauseVox: Campaign Strategy Framework\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The intersection of campaign objectives, supporters, and capacity is the sweet spot for a campaign strategy. In other words, the goal is to balance objectives against what supporters will identify with against what internal capacity you have available.<\/p>\n<p>In the next few weeks, we\u2019ll dive into explaining each of these three areas in detail.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Objectives <\/strong>\u2013 How do you set good campaign goals?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Supporters <\/strong>\u2013 How do you understand supporters? What is the best way to communicate with them?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Internal Capacity<\/strong> \u2013 What are the roles and responsibilities within your non-profit to manage an online campaign?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our goal for this series on campaign strategy is to reduce, perhaps even eliminate, any sense of &#8220;overwhelmed-ness&#8221; and empower you to conduct an effective fundraising campaign with confidence. Check back for more!<\/p>\n<p><em>(title photo by: https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brylyn)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who do we target?&#8221; &#8220;What is our message?&#8221; &#8220;How do we set our goals? What are our goals?&#8221; These are just a few of the strategy questions that go into the planning of an online fundraising campaign. Strategy guides the campaign, presents a holistic view of issues, and cultivates a specific direction for the campaign. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Team CauseVox","author_link":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/author\/teamcausevox\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}