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No fundraising plan? Don’t worry. Here’s what you can do.

No fundraising plan? So, it’s October and you still haven’t gotten around to making a plan for your fundraising through December. Yeah. You’re screwed. No, just kidding. You can still make this work. But you need to start today. Why not just wing it? Just do what you always do, right? Who has time to think […]

Filed Under: Annual Giving, Blog, Planning, Thanks Tagged With: appeal writing, fundraising plans, year-end plan

So, Hands-On Fundraising is a thing…

Just a quick mid-week post to share with you that Hands-On Fundraising, LLC is formed and ready for business. I think this is where my long nonprofit career has been pointing. It’s time to share what I’ve learned over those years. Time to reach more organizations and help them do great work. Thank you for […]

Filed Under: Annual Giving, Blog, Donor communications, Fundraising, Planning Tagged With: appeal writing, donor retention, Fundraising, nonprofit consulting

Writing, simply

I was helping a client with an appeal the other day. I found myself explaining some of the choices I made in the letter. At this point, they were almost automatic for me. I realized not everyone knows there are some simple changes you can make that will improve your appeal. When I get a rough draft, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Donor communications Tagged With: annual appeals, appeal writing, fundraising writing, writing for donors

Are you making these fundraising mistakes?

Are you making these mistakes? As a consultant, I work with some smaller nonprofits. To begin, I try to get a sense of how they’re fundraising now. I see similar problems across different organizations. But here’s the surprising thing − I see these same problems in my mailbox every day, from national and international charities. So these aren’t […]

Filed Under: Annual Giving, Blog, Donor communications Tagged With: appeal writing, nonprofit fundraising, solicitations

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

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