2 min read
A while back, I was scrolling through Apple News on my phone, and a headline from People Magazine caught my eye: “Carl Reiner's One Simple Question to 'Dick Van Dyke Show' Writers Changed the Way...
2 min read
Do you find that first conversation with a donor you haven’t met to be a bit, well, scary? I don’t mean shaking in your boots terrified. But enough that you have to inhale-exhale before you start...
2 min read
How many times has someone asked “How are you?” in greeting? How often was there any real interest in your answer? Now, I realize that there may be some caveats to that, especially for southerners...
3 min read
Talking is a big part of what a relationship fundraiser does. I wrote about that recently in a blog that focused on ensuring your “conversations” are not effectively serial monologues. I’m going to...
3 min read
In the first part of this blog series, I shared with you the importance of creating equivalency language and how to create it for your organization. That’s the hard part.
2 min read
If you go to the Feeding America website right now, the very first thing you will see is $1 = 20 meals. It’s simple and effective. The organization is showing you the actual impact of every dollar...
2 min read
As a Veritus coach, it seems like leadership and fundraisers are obsessed with speed. How can we make the research go faster? How can we get the data faster? How can I find information faster? This...
2 min read
I was reviewing some of my go-to coaching resources recently and came across a great article from the Harvard Business Review on talking too much. The author refers to career coach Marty Nemko’s...
2 min read
Do you have what it takes to be a great Director of Development? For a long time at Veritus, we’ve said one of the toughest jobs in fundraising is being a front-line fundraiser. And I still believe...
2 min read
When I was a development director, there were times I felt really alone. Especially when things weren’t going well.
3 min read
If you’re leading a non-profit, you probably didn’t sign up to spend a big part of your day worrying about whether your fundraisers are doing the right things.
3 min read
I have a confession. As someone who is an achiever and a perfectionist by nature, I sometimes have a bad habit of trying to handle everything myself. Not just because I want to make sure it gets done...
