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Are you faking it?

Do you ever feel like you’re faking it? Every day I’m fortunate to interact with talented people from all over the world. (Thank you, interwebz). One common thread too many of us share: a sense that perhaps we’re not quite good enough. Self-deprecation can oil social connections – but it also costs each of us […]

Filed Under: Blog, Caring for yourself, Fundraising Tagged With: confidence, imposter syndrome, learning, Nonprofit organization 7 Comments

Honestly? Why you can’t raise money

Honestly? Why you can’t raise money Is your smaller organization struggling? Wondering why you can’t get out of the just-squeaking-by-every-year rut? Meet two fundraising enemies: Thinking Small and its evil twin, Wishful Thinking. Thinking Small Thinking Small works its way in disguised as pragmatism. After all, if your organization is small, you have no choice, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Planning Tagged With: Fundraising, fundraising plans, nonprofit fundraising 6 Comments

Are you afraid of commitment?

Or should I say, is your organization afraid? I’ve been fundraising for a long time. And commitment has always been a struggle. Getting the organization to spend time, focus, or money to grow or maintain fundraising is hard. At one time or another, I’ve been told: There’s no money for fundraising. (To hire staff, to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Planning Tagged With: commitment, Fundraising, nonprofit management, Nonprofit organization 2 Comments

Money, time and attention poverty

What’s your attention worth? I read an interesting article a while ago in the New York Times. Titled No Money, No Time, it was about different kinds of poverty. You probably think about financial poverty, but maybe like me, you hadn’t thought as much about time and mental bandwidth poverty. If you suffer from one type of poverty, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Donor communications Tagged With: appeal writing, copy-writing, donor appeals, donor-focused 6 Comments

Serve it like a pizza

Pizza and fundraising… what in the world do they have in common? There’s a small pizza place in our town. It began life as a smaller off-shoot of a chain. The pizza was ok. Mostly we went because it was conveniently close. A few weeks ago, it became obvious that the place was under new […]

Filed Under: Blog, Donor communications, Fundraising Tagged With: Customer service, relationship fundraising 6 Comments

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