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Think carefully about the 'frame' in which you place your appeal Are you framing your...
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Percolate on these ideas; choose 1 - 2 to wake up your year-end campaign! The...
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With the year-end quickly approaching, now is the time to plan ahead to take...
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This Thursday folks in the United States will celebrate what I consider to be...
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Philanthropy is symbiotic I’m a huge fan of the Greater Good Science Center at U.C....
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Double the value of our donors? That would be mind blowing, dude! Imagine what it...
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Meet with donors. Listen to donors. Ask donors. If I had to tell you what...
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Flip the philanthropic asking equation on its head There’s a simple six-step process to assure...
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I recently listened in on a thoughtful webinar by Scot Lumpkin for The Stelter...
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I’m continuing with my occasional “Do’s vs. Don’ts” feature which I began last spring....
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‘Hand-Me-Downs’ is a new Clairification School feature, based on my lifelong love of borrowing,...
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Wondering where fundraising is heading in our highly networked, overly saturated, noisy-as-all-get-out post-digital revolution...
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Focus on the rainbow, not the storm. If you’re coming at fundraising from the perspective...
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Are you and your board locked in combat -- often knocking each other down? Recently...
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Ready to LEAP forward to a new nonprofit board leadership model? "My board is driving...
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When your meaning's unclear, what results? I hate jargon. With a passion. Hate it. Hate it....
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Do you ever worry you’re not doing enough to attract the donors of the...
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It takes a village to tell the whole story A recent article on Beth’s (Kanter)...
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Steven Shattuck of Bloomerang wrote something for Nonprofit Hub called the Ultimate Nonprofit Social...
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Figure out a killer way to capture folks attention. We live in an information overload...
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There's no good excuse not to create awareness about your cause. How the heck...
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There’s a lot about fundraising folks take for granted. And not in a good...
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Does this look like a 21st century nonprofit to you? Ask someone on the street...
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The tyranny of email is killing your productivity - and you. We live in an...
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Lean into fear to inspire caring A very accomplished friend of mine wrote a provocative,...
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I wrote “And then they came for me…” over a year ago. I was criticized...
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I have a dream... Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of standing up for what's...