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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 me accountable to things has made me successful at my work.

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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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Your Non-Profit Organization’s Structure Is Harming Your Mission Impact

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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”

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