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Why Every Non-Profit Leader Needs to Join in the Journey for Racial Justice
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Breaking Out of Organizational Silos
In our last blog post, I talked about how the culture of an organization, through its systems and structure, can breed organizational silos. These rifts create mistrust and territorial behaviors...
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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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Exceptional Donor Service Starts With You
When you think about “donor service,” what does that look like, for you and for your organization? I’ve talked with countless fundraisers and non-profit leaders who don’t see the value of exceptional...
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What Makes a Good Non-Profit Leader?
It was an informal gathering of board members, and the conversation went from sports to kids in college and to the progress of their business. Harmless. Neutral.
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Do You Need Goals for Mid-Level?
While more and more organizations are waking up to realize they need to develop a mid-level program, the whole concept of mid-level donors and creating specific strategies and a program for them is...
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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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Your Donors Are Searching for Significance
I was sent away to a boarding school in another country when I was six years old. Except for two years, all of my school and college experience was in boarding schools away from home.
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Question of the Month: What’s an Acceptable ROI for a Major Gifts Program?
People don’t talk enough about what an acceptable ROI is for a major gifts program. Often, leaders don’t know what is reasonable to expect or how to measure an accurate ROI for their fundraising...
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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?
