Do You Want To Learn To Be A Better Fundraiser?
Check out the blog posts below.
Want these fundraising articles delivered straight to your inbox each month?
Click the sign up button here and as a special bonus, you’ll receive TEN Donor Stewardship Ideas that cost your organization practically nothing.
Summer Is The Time to Rest, Reflect—and Regroup ☀️🧠
What’s the magic of early summer?
The pace shifts. The email volume dips (a little).
The frantic energy of spring campaigns and year-end wrap-ups gives way to something softer.
How can you get a moment to stop reacting and start reflecting?
Reflect, Review, and Recharge: A Look Back at 2024
Make a plan, work your plan. What was our plan for 2024 and did we accomplish it?
What Do We Do Now?
Regardless of all the distractions happening, regardless of the noise, regardless of what grabs the attention, you have a job to do.
You still have to raise money for your nonprofit and probably have goals before year-end.
So what can you do?
Looking Back to Look Forward
What is strategic planning all about? It is a process done to prepare – strategically – for the future. To have a guide for what’s next. To help prioritize where your organization should spend its time, talent and treasure.
But a plan is worthless if it isn’t actionable and achievable. And to start, you first have to look back.
Nonprofit Fundraising Motivations for End-Of-The-Year
You know when it is the end of the year. And you have a never-ending to-do list to finish out the year?
Watch my latest video that discusses this common feeling for fundraisers during end of the year.
Where Are Donors Putting Their Money?
$72.67 BILLION were contributed into Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) from individuals in 2021.
Perhaps they are worth learning about?
Unlocking Sustainable Support: 5 Factors to Successfully Incorporate Recurring Giving into Your Fundraising Program
Have you heard the news? People like easy.
One-click purchases online with arrivals the next day.
Food delivery services.
Auto-correct.
I could go on.
How can nonprofits take advantage of this? Read on to learn more.
When You’re The Only One In The Office…
No one tells you when you start in a fundraising role that it can be really lonely.
That you can feel like you have the weight of the world (or the weight of your nonprofit - which sometimes feels bigger!) on your shoulders.
Can you relate?