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Why Being a Frontline Fundraiser is NOT Just a Career
To illustrate the deep impact that you have as a frontline fundraiser in matching your donor’s passions to the mission, I’d like to share a story.
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Don’t Be White Noise to Your Donor: 4 Ways to Stand Out
You know those sound machines that create white noise and block out all the other sounds around them? That’s what’s happening to your donors right now because everyone is following the same donor...
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In Fundraising, Vulnerability Is Your Greatest Strength
We all have a desire to connect with others. Yet, we’re afraid to. As small children, we felt free to be our true selves. Then, something happened. Bullying, shaming, abandonment, or tragedy happens,...
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Everyone Needs a Coach
Our culture celebrates self-reliance. We have this admiration for the “self-made…fill in the blank.” The problem is that while we have bought into it, it’s a myth. No one I’ve ever met is a self-made...
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Not Everyone Can Get Results Through Others… Is Co-Management the Solution?
There’s a question we ask everyone we hire. It’s worth asking yourself as well: “Do you prefer to get results through others, or would you rather get results through your own efforts?” Many people...
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Why Every Non-Profit Leader Needs to Join in the Journey for Racial Justice
What can I do?
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Can We All Get Along?
If your work as a fundraiser is to help a donor experience the most possible joy through their giving by enabling them to give to projects and programs that will help change the world, then it should...
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Accountability Is the Silver Bullet
For years, I really didn’t like someone following up and asking me if I did something I said I was going to do. But, while I didn’t like it, I appreciated it, because having people in my life to hold...
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Need Help Managing Your Frontline Fundraisers?
What does a frontline fundraiser need to be successful, besides qualified donors and something to present to donors that matches their passions and interests?
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Five Things You Must Do in Caseload Management at the Beginning of This Year
Don’t let one more minute of this new year go by before you cross off the following five things in your major gifts caseload management: Review your caseload and make donor additions and deletions....
