Professional Development My Journey to Explore, Grow and Change Like you, I’ve been thinking a lot about race, inequality and injustice lately. As someone…
Annual Campaign Capital/Endowment Campaign Management HELP! My Volunteers Aren’t Doing Anything Every so often I get a call that surprises me. There was an organization in…
Fundraising 101 The Power of Asking I’ve been working with a newer organization for a few months and have increased their…
Fundraising Plans To Keep or Not to Keep? We’ve all heard the phrase “because that’s how we’ve always done it” used to defend…
Productivity Making Meetings Matter Happy new year, friends! Today’s virtual world allowed me to celebrate the ball dropping with…
Fundraising Plans Productivity How to Achieve your 2021 Goals I love opening the mail at this time of year. Mixed into the catalogues, bills…
Communications Fundraising 101 Thanks for Saying Thanks Last week, one of my friends texted me after work to tell me she had…
Communications Common Mistakes of Nonprofit Websites If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we’re talking about planning for next…
Communications Why You Need a Case for Support Now that we’ve hit December, I find myself thinking about my clients’ fundraising communications toolkit…
Productivity Why “No” is the New “Yes” Last week was a tough one for me. My husband asked me to cover a…
Productivity Stop Talking and Start Doing! I spend a lot of time in small to midsize fundraising shops. And one of…
Board Development Help Your Board Members Help You I speak to many board members who are eager to help their organizations. They joined…
Fundraising 101 Identifying Your Organization’s Key Audiences I was talking with one of my friends last week. A family friend of hers…
Fundraising Plans Top Three Tools You Need for a Successful Fundraising Year This blog post was originally published by Giving Tree Associates. It’s the beginning of February…
Fundraising 101 Giving Tuesday–Should we, or Shouldn’t we? This blog post was originally published by Giving Tree Associates. Giving Tuesday is one of…