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Can we all just get along?

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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 be your responsibility to create an environment that makes it as easy and delightful as possible to...

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Exceptional Donor Service Starts With You

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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?

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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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Why Developing Your EQ Is Key to Great Leadership

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Why Developing Your EQ Is Key to Great Leadership

Here’s a question that keeps repeating in my head: Is the “Great Resignation” going to shake us up and wake us up?

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How Kindness Is Killing Us

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How Kindness Is Killing Us

Kindness sounds like such a good trait. The non-profit sector is full of kind people who want to make a difference, alleviate suffering, and make our world a better place. That sounds like such a...

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Do You Need Goals for Mid-Level?

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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

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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

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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?

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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?

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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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