Question of the Month: How do you make it feel safe to move from a transactional fundraising model to a relational model?
When you’re leading change, it can create anxiety for some on your team. If your fundraising program has always followed a more transactional approach, when you introduce a relational model, your fundraisers may wonder how they’re going to be measured now, if not by...
Create A Culture of Learning and Adaptability
In the last blog I talked about change – how it’s happening all around us, and that to be an effective leader and manager, you must accept change, adapt to it, find opportunities in it, and then take the actions necessary to actually change and develop a culture of...
Develop a Mindset of Change
You’ve seen the manager who cannot and will not change. That person who is stuck in a way of doing things – so stuck that reality is passing them by. You know what that looks like. And you don’t want to be that person, whether you are a manager, a leader, or a...
Use Major Gifts to Bring Your Organization Together
The other day I was talking to an executive director of a regional, well-established non-profit. She was lamenting that her organization was steeped in very strict silos, and the situation made it difficult for development to be effective. I was confused by this...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
