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,...
3 Tips for Unlocking Year-End Success
It’s year-end and you’ve just landed a new job – now what? How are you going to ask donors for a gift when you don’t even know them? Or maybe you’ve had a portfolio, but it’s WAY too big, so there’s no way you can reach everyone. How do you know where to focus your...
The Structure of an Effective Fundraising Organization
Often, the reason the major gifts function in an organization doesn’t work is because the organization itself isn’t organized properly. Or the leaders in the organization don’t have a clear view of what the various functions in the organization are supposed to do....
Cut the Noise and Stay with the Basics
There’s a lot of COVID-19 noise out there. A lot! People telling you how to do things. How not to do things. How to think. What to avoid. We long for silence. A quiet place to be grounded. A place where we can think about what’s right and what’s true in fundraising...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
