Why Do You Need a Coach?
If you are a frontline fundraiser, you need a coach. It’s doesn’t matter if you are brand new to the profession or you have over 20 years of experience. I have seen first-hand, over and over again, the difference a coach makes in the success of a fundraiser’s...
Get Your Donor Calling Muscles with this Checklist
This is the perfect time to sharpen your donor connection skills. And one area I want to focus on today is what we typically call “cold calling,” although I’d like to advocate that we rename this term! First, let’s remember that the people you are calling are generous...
How to Build Your Learner Muscle for Personal Growth
One self-development practice that I enjoy is to head to my bookshelf and allow my intuition to choose what book and page I read. Recently, I selected Change Your Questions Change Your Life: 12 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching, and Life by Marilee Adams, and I...
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...
Do You Need an Attitude Adjustment?
No one wants to hear that they need an attitude adjustment! But if we’re honest, don’t we all need one on occasion? There is so much going on in our lives and happening in the world, and we can all get stuck only focusing on what’s wrong in a way that spirals us...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
