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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
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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What’s Up With Emotions? Building Your Emotional Awareness
Our relationship with our own emotions is powerful. It drives how we respond to stressful situations, our actions, our relationships, and our internal dialogue. Yet many of us are taught to and only...
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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?
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...
