by Karen Kendrick | Jun 7, 2024 | Communication, Empathy, mistakes, Non-Profit Leadership | Communication, Executive Directors, Leadership, Management, Personal Development
Being a good leader doesn’t mean you have to be perfect. On the contrary, the one top tested behavior when it comes to positively impacting your team’s job satisfaction and plan to stay is your ability to admit when you are wrong. Previously, research across...
by Karen Kendrick | Apr 3, 2024 | Employee Management, Leaders, Non-Profit Leadership, Non-profit Management, Transformational Gifts | Communication, Curiousity, Executive Directors, High Givers, Leadership, Management
Leaders, I know that it can feel like a tricky balancing act. How do you push for your fundraisers to make bigger asks without pressuring them into a transactional approach with donors? Let’s say you just heard that a donor gave half a million dollars to the...
by Richard Perry | Feb 23, 2024 | Donor-Centered, Job Description, Job Descriptions, Management, Non-profit leaders, Non-Profit Leadership, Non-profit Management | Executive Directors, Fundraising, Hiring and Retaining Staff, Leadership, Management
If the main purpose of a non-profit is to address a societal problem, then it follows that securing the resources to address that problem is the other major objective. I talked about this in a blog I wrote earlier this year. But why does securing the resources...
by Veritus Group | Jul 28, 2023 | Hiring MGOs, Job search, remote work | Executive Directors, Hiring, Jobs, Non-Profits, Uncategorized
There are few topics as frequently talked about right now as issues with hiring and retaining fundraisers. This issue has persisted for years, but recently it has become increasingly problematic for non-profits. With many organizations struggling to fill vacant...
by Jeff Schreifels | Jun 14, 2023 | Board of Directors, Non-Profit Leadership, Work Your Plan | Board of Directors, Executive Directors, Leadership, Management, Planning, The Veritus Way
Last month, I had the privilege of presenting our donor analysis and The Veritus Way to a new client’s leadership and board development committee. They had recently hired us. But in a span of just three months, their Executive Director, Development Director, and Major...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Mar 31, 2023 | Accountability, Keys to Success, Management, Non-Profit Leadership, Strategic Plan, Work Your Plan | Accountability, Executive Directors, Fundraising, Leadership, Non-Profits
In my last post, I urged frontline fundraisers to not worry about the outside forces they can’t control, and to focus on executing their fundraising plan for each donor in their portfolio… the one thing they do have control over. Now, I want to specifically address...