To Be a Great Leader: Know Every Aspect of the Donor Pipeline (Part 1 of 3)

To Be a Great Leader: Know Every Aspect of the Donor Pipeline (Part 1 of 3)

This is part one of a three-part blog series: Warning, There’s a Gap in your Fundraising Knowledge and Experience. After working in this industry for over 32 years now, it’s clear to me that if you are going to be an effective non-profit leader, development manager,...
Keep, Lift, Move: The Three Objectives of a Successful Mid-Level Program [Podcast Episode]

Keep, Lift, Move: The Three Objectives of a Successful Mid-Level Program [Podcast Episode]

More and more non-profits are discovering that a mid-level program is the key to a healthy donor pipeline. If you’re wondering where to find more major donors, the answer is almost always: look to your mid-level donors. But how do you know if your mid-level program is...
How to Overcome the Fear and Get Started on Your Mid-Level Program

How to Overcome the Fear and Get Started on Your Mid-Level Program

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 organizations overcome those initial fears to find incredible mid-level success....
No Pipeline, No Future: How Does the Donor Pipeline Fit Into Your Organizational Structure?

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 the pipeline in the organization structure of the non-profit. Here’s...