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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 real harm to the economy of the organization. Jeff and I have seen this dynamic so many times. It’s one...

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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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How Do You Report Back on Impact When Your Mission is Not Direct Services?

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[Video] How Do You Report Back on Impact When Your Mission is Not Direct Services?

Reporting back on impact is THE key in retaining your donors. In fact, when donors are asked why they stopped giving, one of the top reasons is that the donor didn’t know the impact of their gift....

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The Dual Purpose of Fundraising

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The Dual Purpose of Fundraising

The purpose of fundraising seems to be what the word says: FUND raising. That seems self-explanatory. Fundraisers raise the funds. Or more basically – get the money.

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Are You Asking Your Donors “Why” Enough?

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Are You Asking Your Donors “Why” Enough?

Why does your donor love your organization so much? Have you sat down with your donor and really listened to their answer? If they said something like, “well, I just think you do a great job,” did...

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5 Self-Care Tips to Make Time for YOU During Busy Seasons

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5 Self-Care Tips to Make Time for YOU During Busy Seasons

One thing is certain… the year-end push is exhausting. You’ve been busy preparing donor offers, meeting with donors, writing thank-you notes, making follow-up calls… and by this point in the year,...

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