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What Are You Grateful For This Year?
As many of us in the U.S. prepare to pull up a chair at the Thanksgiving table—and even if you’re reading this from somewhere far beyond our borders—I want to take a moment to pause with you. This...
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Non-Profit Leadership
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What to Do When Leadership Isn’t on Board with Relationship-Based Fundraising
One of the most frustrating challenges for a non-profit fundraiser is when leadership resists embracing a relationship-based fundraising program. Maybe they’re clinging to old habits—relying solely...
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What Great Non-Profit Leaders Do (and Why It Matters)
Not long ago, I was talking with a group of board members after a meeting. The conversation started light—family, sports, business. But it didn’t stay there. One of them leaned in and said, “I don’t...
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The Top 3 Ways Non-Profit CEOs Can Lead and Empower Their Fundraisers
Folks, I've been on the road again lately, crisscrossing the world and talking with non-profit leaders from all walks of life. And let me tell you something I've noticed time and again – the...
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What Fundraising Game Are You Playing?
One of my colleagues in the industry, Jason Lewis, has a phrase for the way that many non-profits approach fundraising: arms-length fundraising. It’s the idea that organizations treat fundraising...
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Non-Profit Leaders: There is No Shortcut in Major Gifts
Major Gift work is not easy. Yet when I read the headlines of our industry magazines and websites, everyone seems to have either an easy way to do major gifts, or some kind of major gift fundraising...
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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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No Trust, No Relationship, No Money: On Self-Trust (Part 1 of 4) - Veritus Group
Veritus Group: September 28, 2022
This is Part 1 of a series on building trust: “No Trust, No Relationship, No Money.” Trust is the core building block of all relationships. Yet many donors do not trust the organizations they give to...
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How to Overcome the Fear and Get Started on Your Mid-Level Program - Veritus Group
In our last blog, Lisa Robertson shared the top five reasons leaders fear starting a mid-level program. I can’t let that go by without also sharing some concrete examples of how I’ve seen...
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Five Fears That Keep Non-Profit Leaders From Investing in Mid-Level
“Can you talk to our team?” It’s not an unusual request, but one we often receive when we suggest to folks that investing in a mid-level program is their logical next step in ensuring a healthy donor...
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Why Every Non-Profit Leader Needs to Join in the Journey for Racial Justice
What can I do?
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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.
