-
Awareness alone is passive. Do you wish you had a dime for every time a nonprofit...
-
Ever have a well-meaning, yet perhaps overly controlling or risk-aversive, boss say to you: Our...
-
You must invite your donor into the story. Take yourself out of the equation. Donors don’t care...
-
It costs more to acquire a new donor than retain a current one. A lot more. In...
-
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make me a Match! While you might be tempted to guess "If I were...
-
Monterey Bay Aquarium shares the love with their donors. Last year, you posted about sending donors...
-
I find a widespread misunderstanding about the notion of what constitutes being donor-centered. It derives...
-
What if you had a new strategy for building the types of committed, transformative relationships...
-
Not as much as you might think. Yet people tell me all the time how much...
-
Wondering where fundraising is heading in our highly networked, overly saturated, noisy-as-all-get-out post-digital revolution world?...
-
What if I told you there’s a teensy little digital upsell that could skyrocket your...
-
People keep telling you to add more text messaging to your communications strategy, right? It’s a...
-
When organizations aren’t raising as much money as they need, they’ll often tell me: “We...
-
Please don’t leave your new (or old for that matter) board members dangling! Being a board...
-
Sustain the positive energy of love and connection Are you throwing your former board members out...
-
Have you ever found yourself, whether by accident or design, face-to-face with a VIP –...
-
Want content that raises money? Tell more stories. Storytelling today is ‘hot.’ And why not? It’s the...
-
Annual reports don’t have to be dry as dust. In fact, the most effective ones...
-
If you are a U.S. Citizen, it is VOTE! BE THE CHANGE you want to see. "Democracy...
-
Steven Shattuck of Bloomerang wrote something for Nonprofit Hub called the Ultimate Nonprofit Social Media...
-
Figure out a killer way to capture folks attention. We live in an information overload society....
-
If it smells like a fish...Today I've been thinking about how government and nonprofits work...
-
Can there be any innovation where we fail to accept the fact that the status...
-
I just came across this blog post. Technology Can't Help YouWhile I agree that technology...
Culture & Values
-
Get on the Pathway to Passionate Philanthropy, Not Forgettable Fundraising In Part 1 I laid out...
-
Get on the Pathway to Passionate Philanthropy, Not Forgettable Fundraising Philanthropy is a mindset. An embracing...
-
I have a dream... Today would have been Dr. Martin Luther King’s 95th birthday. During his lifetime...