Have you ever saved for something really important? A car, a house, an education? If you’re saving now, you’ve noticed how low interest rates are. It can be hard to see your savings grow so slowly. Your organization, if you have an endowment or reserve funds, saves too. Your finance director or board finance chair […]
How to find your way through fundraising
Fundraising is always changing. It can feel hard to keep up. But the basics remain key. To succeed, we must make learning part of our practice. I want to suggest you grab a copy of a new little book from TrueSense Marketing. Who doesn’t need a guide? Their Fundraising Field Guide is packed with basic […]
Please share a moment of humanity with me
Do you ever feel cynical about fundraising or even humanity? It’s a hazard of our age, I guess. I hope it’s not one of our profession, though. You’ve heard that storytelling is key to good fundraising. You’ve heard that focusing on our donors and showing them need and appreciation are critical. You’ve heard that treating […]
Do you think fundraising is scary?
What’s holding your fundraising back? Is fundraising scary? I recently posed that question to a group I was training. We were having some fun with a true and false game. Most of the questions were pretty easy to answer. This one was more nuanced. Fundraising is sometimes scary. But it’s almost always needed. So if […]
How to grow your nonprofit
Too small to grow? In my consulting practice, I’ve worked with some new, tiny or small-ish organizations. They’re all feeling the same frustration, however – how to grow. They want simple things: stability, maybe a salary for the ED or maybe for enough staff to do the job right. They feel the lack of prospects, […]