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How to Get Back Your Time as a Non-Profit Manager
If you’re leading a non-profit, you probably didn’t sign up to spend a big part of your day worrying about whether your fundraisers are doing the right things.
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Less Stress, More Impact: How the Veritus Way Helps Non-Profits Breathe Easier
Working in a non-profit can be deeply meaningful, but also incredibly stressful. You’re juggling donor relationships, fundraising goals, tight budgets, internal expectations, and maybe even a bit of...
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Finding Joy in the Mission: How to Avoid Burnout and Stay Grounded in the Why
One of the most important things I remind fundraisers to do—especially when they’re running on fumes—is to take a “mission moment.” When burnout starts creeping in, it’s not always about doing less....
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Discipline is Freedom
There is a big banner that drapes down from the ceiling in the gym I go to every day. It says, “Discipline is Freedom.” I think about this concept often and this statement has been our guiding...
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How Are Your Major Gift Fundraising Results?
At Veritus, our team has a Slack channel called “Celebrations.” If I’m ever feeling down, I go in there and it revives my spirit. Why? Because in that celebration channel are phenomenal stories that...
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Do You Have a System to Help You Stay on Track in 2024?
I once read that if you’re feeling so overwhelmed or anxious that you can’t focus, one of the best things you can do when you wake up in the morning is make your bed.
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Question of the Month: What role does your organization’s structure have in your donor pipeline?
Most non-profits don’t realize there’s a connection between their organization’s structure and their donor pipeline.
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No Pipeline, No Future: How Does the Donor Pipeline Fit Into Your Organizational Structure?
It’s always amazing to Jeff and me how the donor pipeline, as a strategic element of fundraising, is either ignored or mismanaged in most non-profits. The reason we know this is that we cannot see...
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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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Managing Your Fight-or-Flight Response for More Courageous Conversations - Veritus Group
As a leader, when someone on your team is being territorial and difficult, it’s a good idea to pause and think about why. Possibly, like Jeff just talked about in his previous two blogs, it has to do...
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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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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...
