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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?
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Your Non-Profit Organization’s Structure Is Harming Your Mission Impact
Fractured non-profit organizational structure leads to unclear divisions of labor, which in turn contributes to the creation of inefficient processes and systems. And this inefficiency results in...
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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....
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Hiring and Retaining the Right Fundraising Talent
This post is part-four in a four-part series titled “Reimagining the Non-Profit Workplace” My guess is that right now, either you or someone you know has left or is thinking about leaving their...
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How to Be A Manager People Want to Work For
This post is part-three in a four-part series titled “Reimagining the Non-Profit Workplace”
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How to Deal With and Change a Toxic Non-Profit Culture
This post is part-two in a four-part series titled “Reimagining the Non-Profit Workplace”
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Front-line Fundraisers Are Leaving… And It’s Your Fault
This post is part one in a four-part series titled “Reimagining the Non-Profit Workplace”
