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...
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...
Don’t Revert to the Old Way of Fundraising! Stay the Course.
Change is hard. But even harder is not regressing back to the old ways after change has been made. In college, I studied history. And, if you just look at the history of the U.S., whenever there is a big shift or change (take the civil rights movement, for example),...
The Wind Is at Your Back. What Are YOU Going to Do?
You may have heard that there’s a new fundraising report out called the Philanthropy Outlook by Lilly School of Philanthropy and sponsored by CCS. Basically, the report says that the forecast for 2024 and 2025 is that overall, giving will go up 4.2% and 3.9%. For...
Your Mission Is More Than You Think It Is
I read quite a few online news journals covering non-profits. Essentially, every week I’m reading stories about how donors are taken for granted, how organizations lament how much donor and value attrition is going on, how fundraisers are leaving every 13-18 months,...TOP RATED PODCAST
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