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Culture of Philanthropy (2)

Why Your Donor Doesn’t Talk About Their End-of-Life Charitable Plans

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Why Your Donor Doesn’t Talk About Their End-of-Life Charitable Plans

“How many of your donors have made a planned gift?” A question like this, or really anything related to “planned giving,” strikes terror into your heart and the hearts of every other fundraiser I...

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How “The Great Reimagination” Calls Us to Prioritize Inclusion and Belonging in the Non-Profit Sector

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How “The Great Reimagination” Calls Us to Prioritize Inclusion and Belonging in the Non-Profit Sector

For today’s blog, I’ve invited Paul Towne to share his story with you with the hope that it might inspire you as you think about either moving into a new position or, if you are a non-profit manager...

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The Fish Stinks From the Head: Warning Signs of an Untrustworthy Non-Profit (Part 2 of 4)

This is Part 2 of a series on building trust: “No Trust, No Relationship, No Money.” “The fish stinks from the head.”

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How to Improve Collaboration Across Your Organization to Better Serve Your Donors

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How to Improve Collaboration Across Your Organization to Better Serve Your Donors

Your donors are on an incredible journey with you. They may have been in relationship with your organization for decades, starting out by giving through direct mail, then giving through their...

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Breaking Out of Organizational Silos

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Breaking Out of Organizational Silos

In our last blog post, I talked about how the culture of an organization, through its systems and structure, can breed organizational silos. These rifts create mistrust and territorial behaviors...

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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...

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Develop a Mindset of Change

You’ve seen the manager who cannot and will not change. That person who is stuck in a way of doing things – so stuck that reality is passing them by. You know what that looks like. And you don’t want...

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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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