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Communication (2)

Why Do Fundraisers Avoid the Problem in Their Storytelling?

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Why Do Fundraisers Avoid the Problem in Their Storytelling?

You have a flat tire, so you need to go get it fixed. You’re hungry so you stop and get some fast food, or you visit the grocery store. When you’re not feeling well – you go to the doctor. If your...

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Don’t Be White Noise to Your Donor: 4 Ways to Stand Out

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Don’t Be White Noise to Your Donor: 4 Ways to Stand Out

You know those sound machines that create white noise and block out all the other sounds around them? That’s what’s happening to your donors right now because everyone is following the same donor...

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Follow This Checklist to Prepare for Courageous Conversations

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Follow This Checklist to Prepare for Courageous Conversations

I don’t know how we think we can avoid it. Our organizations are made up of people with different personalities, expectations, cultural experiences, and communication styles working together 8 hours...

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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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What’s a Meaningful Connection?

To be blunt, the metrics used to evaluate many major gift programs these days don’t make much sense to Richard and me, especially the metrics around how many face-to-face meetings or phone calls you...

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Permission-Based Asking: The Alignment Circle

One of the biggest errors in asking is to assume that the process is linear, i.e you start at one point and, through a succession of steps, you get to the final conclusion. The steps are all in...

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