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Posts
- Hell: How Was It For You?
- The Major Gifts Checklist - Not!
- The Great New Innovation in Fundraising: Asking for Money
- Cross Cultural Experiences: Food and Boards are the Same Everywhere
- Calculated Optimism or Just Plain Faith?
- Fidelity Looms Large in Fundraising
- Food and the Internet: A Perfect Recipe
- Looking Beyond the 4 Stars
- Rainy Day Giving (and Keeping)
- And Now for Some Good News
- Too Much of a Good Thing?
- Exercise Your Freedom
- Generations and Unexpected Generalizations
- Doggin’ the Watchdogs
- Wishing for a Crystal Ball
- No Time to Fiddle Around
- A Graph Every Fundraiser Should See
- A New Way of Thinking About Donor Motivations
- Friends Forever? What Results May Be Saying about Fundraising from Individuals
- Go WILD!
- Area Fundraisers Get Ready for the Fall Fundraising Season!
- Of Crisis, Caring and Creativity
- The Elephant in the Board Room
- The secret to major gifts fundraising is…
- Capital Campaigns: Alive and Well
- Gimme the Basics: Four Tips for Using Social Media
- Have you thought about your DFCR?
- The Ride of Their Life: How Special Transit raised $11.4 million
- The Magic Number: How to Ask for the “Right” Gift
- Asking Online: No Time Like the Present
- Planning to Plan: It Takes Leadership
- “Thanks” or “No Thanks”: A Cautionary Tale
- Colorado Gives Day: A Mathematical Puzzle
- Give Your Year-End Giving a Boost (or 5)!
- A Fundraiser’s New Year’s Resolution
- Direct Mail Drives On-line Giving: A Study to Consider
- Getting Your Message Out: Trends in Communications
- Major Gifts Success Requires More Than Good Intentions
- Evaluating Your Fundraising Program in a Nutshell
- Use Your Website to Get the Word Out!
- A Fundraising Fairy Tale: What Would You Do with $5 Million?
- How a Community Engagement Strategy Resulted in $208.8 Million Dollars
- Text Giving and Multi-Channel Fundraising: RUUP4IT?
- Women Philanthropists are People Too
- “Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up — we love you so!”
- Selling vs. Asking: Are you ready for corporate sponsorship?
- Fundraising Investment: A Balancing Act
- A Cautious Social Media Convert
- SmartMoney: Dumb Article on Fundraisers
- Three Cups of Hard Medicine
- What Foundations Want: A Cure
- It’s True! Well-Trained Fundraisers Raise More Money!
- Planned Giving: 6 Lessons from Experience
- Fame and Philanthropy
- Board Aptitude: One Size Fits All?
- Are You a ‘Thought Partner’ or Just a ‘Grant Seeker’? It Makes a Difference!
- Want Results? Embrace “Good” Overhead
- The Lazy Days of Summer (The Fundraisers’ Version)
- Keeping up with the Big Dogs in ECommunications
- “Charting Impact” is a Welcome Addition to the Charity Ratings Scene
- All in the Family: A Typical and Extraordinary Will
- Dreaming of Year-End in July
- Mothers Acting Up: How a nonprofit chose to end it’s lifecycle
- Text to Donate - Grassroots Style
- Cooking up a Case Statement
- Putting the Fire Back in Board Service
- Good Meetings Fan the Flame of Board Passion
- Friday Afternoon, a Glass of Wine and Face-2-Face Fundraising
- Partying for Charity 20 Something Style
- Board Fundraising in Three Delicious Courses
- Thanks? The ACLU and a Mixed Thank You Note
- Thanks? The ACLU and a Mixed Thank You Note
- In the Doghouse: How public perceptions affect fundraising
- Tried and True: 8 “Have-To’s” for Your Year End Appeal Letter
- Is there a merger in your future?
- Pass the Rubber Chicken! In Defense of Fundraising Galas
- Just in Time for Halloween: Your Nightmare Donor
- Ready for Your Close-Up? Using Video in Fundraising
- Bonus! A Stewardship Video You Don’t Want to Miss
- A Powerful Ask Begins with a Little Self-Reflection
- Checkpoint: Thanksgiving
- Please look that gift horse in the mouth!
- Dialing for Dollars: The Follow-up Call
- Happy Fundraisers Make for Happy Nonprofits
- Before You Leave the Office This Week…
- Navigating 2012: A Month by Month Guide
- 2012: My Glass is Half Full
- Missing Your Lapsed Donors? How to Get Them Back
- Improve Your Fundraising Plan with Post-it Notes and a Really Big Wall
- Can Your Retention Rate Be Too High?
- One Bad Apple…?
- Who’s Movin’ Who? Renaming Moves Management
- Face2Face Training: How to Ask for the Big Gift
- Writing Your Annual Appeal: Tricks of the Trade for a Better Response
- You’re Fabulous. But It’s Not About You.
- Are Major Gift Fundraisers Born That Way?
- There’s Room for Everyone in Fundraising
- Can Your Fundraising Operation Pass a Stress Test?
- What’s in a Name? How One Nonprofit Breathed New Life Into Its Brand
- Spring Break Roundup: A Little Beach Reading
- Board Members Are People, Too
- Seven Ways to Show Board Members the LOVE (and get some back in return)
- Executive Director Transitions: Good for Fundraising?
- What Not To Do: A Stunning Example from the Brooklyn Museum
- The UnGala: A Workshop for People Who Want to Move Beyond the Traditional Chicken Dinner
- Three Things Some Fundraisers Find Hard to Believe
- Yay or Nay: Will Election Year Fundraising Affect Your Bottom Line?
- Event Mysteries and Certainties
- You and Your Donors Are Not Necessarily Alike
- Converting The “Almost” Donor
- How to Make the “Ask” at Your Next House Party
- If it’s June, it’s Time to Re-tool Your Donate Page
- An Extraordinary Service
- Face-2-Face Fundraising: It’s Not What You Say…
- Are You Using Infographics Yet?
- Giving Clubs: 5 Top Tips for Reinventing a Golden Oldie
- Small Fixes in the Board Agenda, Big Improvements in Fundraising
- Giving Clubs Part II
- Small Fixes in the Board Agenda, Big Improvements in Fundraising
- What’s a Board Fundraising Committee Actually Supposed to DO?
- Prospect Research: What Do You Really Need To Know?
- 4 Things to Do Before You Mail Your Year-End Appeal
- Creating Connections, Deepening Divides: Two New Online Resources
- The Must Have for Any Budget: A Welcome Strategy
- Foundation Fundraising Rule #1: Innovation is a Team Effort
- Fundraisers: What’s YOUR Legacy?
- Pink Slip in the Boardroom: “Firing” a Nonprofit Board Member
- Collaborative Fundraising: Mission Impossible?
- One Call to Action = More Money
- Checklist Heaven: For the Busy Year-End Appeal Season
- The Fantastic Voyage of Major Gift Giving
- How to Activate Your Board to Raise $ for Your Year-End Appeal
- Fundraising in a Crazy World
- Fundraising in December Day-by-Day
- Thank You Letter Do’s, Don’ts and Wildcards
- 5 lessons in Fundraising from Colorado Gives Day
- Stress Busters for Fundraisers: Special Holiday Edition
- A Case for Support is Not a Case Against
- Hope is in Your Hands
- The Last Five Days of December for Major Gift Fundraisers
- Of Money, Magic and Motivation
- The Beauty of Fundraising in January
- Tips for Group Decision Making: It’s All About Action
- It’s Time to State Your Case
- Are You Stuck in a Vicious Cycle? Then Read This!
- Taxes, Receipts & Donor Cultivation
- The Angel Donor: It Could Happen to You!
- Fundraising Planning from the Ground Up: Who Cares?
- A Fundraising Tool So Versatile, Ronco Should Sell It!
- What Would They Say About YOU on Yelp?
- Foundations and Nonprofits: A Circle of Learning
- You, Dan Pallotta, and the Great Nonprofit Debate
- On Target: Rating & Screening Prospects
- The Un-Gala: 10 Steps to More Effective Fundraising Events
- Corporations Are People, Too
- Thinking About Boston
- E-mail for Smarties: How to Use E-mail at Every Level of the Donor Pyramid
- Back to Basics: Asking Individuals
- When Organizations (and Donor Relationships) Decline
- How to Track Precious Fundraising Time
- Hey, I’m an Individual!
- 4 Easy Ways to Make E-Mail Work for Your Fundraising Plan Right Now (Don’t Wait Until December!)
- Rites of Passage
- Fundraising Vision: 5 Questions to Consider
- “Thank you for your future gift.”
- What Does It Take To Raise Money From Individual Donors?
- Invest in Growth. Then Get Ready to Defend Yourself.
- Get Real: How Your Grassroots Organization Can Invest in Acquisition
- Touch-Points: The Key to Your Donors’ Hearts
- Takes One to Know One: Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
- Puppy Dogs and Little Ballerinas
- Naysayers, Roadblocks, and Ways Forward: Building Consensus Around Your Fundraising Plan
- Evolution of a Super Fundraiser in Six Short Weeks
- How My Latest Pedicure Reminded Me of Fundraising (and Other Musings on Donor Retention)
- “Aim High in Hope and Work”
- 4 Things to Do Before You Mail Your Year-End Appeal
- How Much Should I Ask For?!
- What is Donor Engagement, Anyway? 3 Ideas to Make it Real
- Thinking about a capital campaign? Do these things first!
- From Boulder With Love: Reflections on Authentic Fundraising Appeals
- Fundraising and Disasters - AGAIN
- Giving Days: Make Them Work for Your Fundraising Plan
- Will You Make Goal This Year?
- What Does It Mean to Be Authentic in Your Fundraising?
- Plan B: What to do when the prospect says “No”
- The Risk in Standing Still: The Perils of Playing-it-Safe Fundraising
- Small Steps, Big Gains
- What Your Major Donors Want in November and December
- Forget the Turkey, Eat that Frog!
- GivingThanks: 4 Things to Say on a Thank You Call
- Get a Jump on Next Year’s Plan
- E-mail Lessons from Colorado Gives Day
- 5 Things that Moved the Needle in 2013
- Greatest Hits of 2013 and Fundraising Inspiration for 2014
- How to Create Win-Win Corporate Partnerships
- The Leak in Your Donor Bucket
- What’s Your Change Theory? Donors Want to Know.
- Using Your Annual Report to Look Ahead
- Where’s the Beef? Show Me the Money!
- Do You Dig Your Donors? Show Them Your Love in SPADE!
- How to Create a Vision Worth Rallying Around
- More Than Names on a Letterhead: Advisory Boards That Raise Money
- The Myth of the Fundraising Rainmaker
- Appeal Writing for Storytellers: 7 Questions to Get the Content You Want
- Building E-Mail Lists for the Future: Is Bigger Really Better?
- Get those Weeds out of the Board Room
- Fundraising Forecasting Beyond the Magic 8 Ball
- 5 Ways to Avert Naming Gift Disaster
- The High Altitude Gardener’s Guide to Board Development
- Slightly Creepy Birthday Cards: Not All Retention Efforts Thrill Your Donors
- Free Yourself from the Committee Treadmill
- The Hidden Treasure of Former Board Members
- And the Band Played On: What to do when you lose a Development Director
- Just Like Family: Bequest Giving is Closer Than You May Think
- Is a Feasibility Study Right for You?
- Course-Correct: An Agenda for Your Next Fundraising Retreat
- Inspired to Act: Fundraising and the Summer Season
- Bottling the Essence of Your Organization
- Location is Everything: Where to Ask for the Big Gift
- Ring or Fling? Not all Donors Want the Same Relationship
- A Board Fundraising Training That Actually Works
- Using Old Fashioned Strategies to Get New E-mail Addresses
- Mission-Driven Fundraising: Finding Your True North
- How often should you e-mail your supporters?…It all depends
- It’s Your Party: What Giving Days Can Do For You
- How We Think About Bequest Giving
- What it Really Takes to be a Major Gifts Officer
- 5 Easy Ways to Boost Fundraising With Your E-Newsletter
- A Trail Guide for the Last Stretch of Your Capital Campaign
- Will the Long-Term Donor Please Stand Up?
- The 8 Key Elements of Capital Campaign Success
- Giving Days: Will a Virtual Experience Inspire Event Donors to Give?
- What Grant Makers Aren’t Telling You
- Time + Talent = Treasure: A New Volunteer Equation
- Spin a Spooky Web of Prospects
- 10 Ways to Get Your Appeal Letter Opened
- Happy Fundraisers Make for Happy Nonprofits
- The Opportunity of the E-mail Unsubscribe
- The Three Hard Fundraising Questions Every Board Should Ask
- It’s Mid-December: Time to Pick Up the Phone!
- Your Best Board Retreat Ever
- The Deep End of the Pond
- 5 Tips for Evaluating Your Fundraising Program
- More Than Lip Service: Building Top Supporter Care on Any Budget
- Guest Blog: A Year-End Appeal Success Story
- Make Every Day Valentine’s Day for Your Donors
- Foundation Fundraising is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
- Do You Really Care How Many People Came to Your Event?
- Time is on Your Side. Yes it is!
- Doing Right by Your Middle Donors
- Spring is Here. Throw Things Out!
- Not Just For the Birds: Making Your Website Generate Quality Leads
- One Board Campaign = Two Problems Solved
- How Do You Rate Your Fundraising Risk?
- Weighing Your Options: A Decision-Making Tool
- Once a Major Donor Always a Major Donor?
- A Few Fundraising Resources for Geeks
- How Losing Control Can Lead to Your Next Big Fundraising Idea
- Answer these Six Questions Before You Ask for Money
- Is Your E-newsletter Doing Anything for Your Donors?
- Building Trust in the Face of Scandal
- The Comeback: Paper Newsletters for Middle and Major Donors
- Practice Makes a Perfect Major Gifts Ask
- So Many Options: Direct Mail, Mobile Giving, and the Choices Fundraisers Have to Make
- Refresh Your Board’s Elevator Pitch
- Group Decision Making at Its Best
- What’s in a Name? How to Price Your Greatest Asset
- How You Can Innovate Your Way to a Better Event
- Tell me…what can my dollars actually do?
- 7 Tips for Writing Effective Fundraising Copy
- Attracting the Investor Donor
- How to Write Fundraising E-mail Like a (Radio) Star
- Sometimes You Just Have to Say “No” to a Gift
- Bigger Fundraising isn’t always Better Fundraising
- Six Tips for a Better Campaign Gift Pyramid
- Measuring Major Gift Performance: Think Beyond the Dollar
- The Real Scoop on Getting Your Board to Fundraise
- Inspiring Your Middle Donor with Major Thanks
- Three Questions to Ask Before You Take that Development Director Job
- Donor Retention Takes the Back Seat in Major Gifts
- Friendly Reminder: It’s Time to Plan Your Board Retreat
- 6 Things Major Gift Officers Should NOT be Doing Now
- It Takes Two to Tango: The Major Gift Solicitation Team
- 3 Ways to Inspire Your Middle Donors in Your Year-end Campaign
- Ask Your Donors for Advice. Then Listen!
- Paris and the Bigger Pie Theory
- Why I Refuse to Give Up
- Major Donors and Giving Days: Opportunities Abound
- Three Fundraising Challenges to Mull Over During the Holidays
- 5 Things a Development Director Should Do in January
- How to Stand Out from the Capital Campaign Crowd
- Finding Your Valuable Middle Donors: A Recipe for Success
- The Top Four Things Strategic Planners need from Development Directors
- Five Things You Need from a Strategic Plan
- A Valentine for a Development Director
- The Next Chapter: Make a case for giving this year
- How to Translate a Fundraising Idea into Fundraising Reality
- 3 Common Major Gift Mistakes That Nonprofits Make with Their Donor Databases
- Streamline Your Work with a Fantastic Fundraising Calendar
- Funding Big Ambitions (That Aren’t Buildings): Where Crowdfunding and Capital Campaigns Meet
- The $5 Billion Race: Will Election Fundraising Get In Your Way?
- Beyond a Building: What a Major Gifts Campaign can do for Your Fundraising
- A Blueprint for Campaign Planning
- What You Need to Fundraise for Big Dreams
- 1-2-3! A Tool for Capturing the Collective Wisdom of Your Team
- 7 Characteristics of a Successful Event
- Increase Your Impact with a Board Self-Assessment
- Four Events That Will Raise You More Money Than Your Big Gala
- Tips for Getting the Face-to-Face Donor Meeting
- Ah-Ha! Moments in Prospect Research: Google Smarter, Not Harder
- Three Indispensable Tools for Starting a Grant Proposal
- How to Write a Values Statement that Really Means Something
- What Development Directors Want: A List for Organizations Looking to Hire
- Lessons from the Air: Bringing Simplicity and Elegance to Our Work
- 5 Tried and True Ways Your Small Organization Can Build a Donor List
- How to Recruit Board Members with a Purpose
- Happy Summer!
- Internet Searches: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
- Being an Olympic Gold Medal Fundraiser
- What it Takes to be a Fundraising “Bright Spot”
- What Does Your Fundraising Say About Your Organization?
- Team Spirit: Mobilizing Your Organization for Fundraising Success
- Watch Your Language! Fundraising Terms that Don’t Say What We Mean
- Keeping it Real: How to be Authentic in your Fundraising
- Know Before You Go: The Power of Prospect Research
- Fast Forward: Time for Fundraising to Catch Up With the Diverse World of 2016
- Personal Solicitation is Worth the Effort!
- How to Get Your Appeal Started: For the Procrastinating Fundraiser
- Cooking Up a Great Fundraising Pitch
- How to Make Giving Days Work for Your Year-End Fundraising Strategy
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