Worried About Meeting Your Fundraising Goals This Year? Here’s What To Focus On
Recently, I’ve been talking to several major gift officers all in different sectors of the non-profit community and many of them are racked with anxiety about meeting their revenue goals for 2024. Obviously, the economy is on everyone’s mind, and depending on the...
What It Means to Win in Fundraising: Lessons from the Olympic Games
If I told you, “You’re a winner!” How would that sit with you? Would it make you feel uncomfortable? Like a fraud? Unsure if you deserved it? So many of us have a messy relationship with success and celebrating our wins. But why is that? Let’s take a moment to reframe...
Fundraising Results on the Decline? It’s Time to Examine Your Paradigm
Today’s guest blog post was written by Diana Frazier, Senior Client Experience Leader at Veritus Group. One of the New York Times commentators I read regularly brought up the term “paradigm blindness.” He was using it in a discussion on the deep political divide...
Why Is It So Hard to Ask for the Big Gift?
“I just couldn’t do it!” That’s the response we get from many frontline fundraisers who just cannot ask for the big gift even when the donor has the motivation and capacity to do so. And it boils down to one reason. The fundraiser thinks it’s about the money. You are...
It’s Time to Change Your View of Volunteers
The subject of volunteers in the non-profit fundraising, marketing, and communication sector has been an interesting and troubling journey over my last 45+ years of doing this work. Interesting in that there has been a huge volume of volunteer talent that has been...TOP RATED PODCAST
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