Category: Fundraising
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Year-end fundraising tips
November 27, 2024 Given we’re on the cups of December, I felt it would be timely to share some thoughts on year-end fundraising. Of course, in the ideal world, you…
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Scary Nonprofit Quotes 2024
Welcome to the 3rd not-quite annual edition of Scary Nonprofit Quotes. I authored the original edition in 2021 as Halloween approached and a follow-up in 2022. After a one-year hiatus,…
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Nonprofit dashboards 101
Have you heard about nonprofit dashboards? If not, here’s a quick overview of what they are, why they’re valuable, and how you might create one.
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On the value of one-on-ones
Rather than being inefficient, one-on-one meetings are a necessity to build personal relationships and to ask organizational supporters to take on real leadership, whether via fundraising or otherwise.
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How to relentlessly focus on relationships
It’s one thing to understand why relationships matter for nonprofits. But how can you be deliberate in creating, strengthening, and activating those relationships?
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Scary Nonprofit Quotes of 2022
Welcome to the 2nd annual edition of Scary Nonprofit Quotes. I authored the original Scary Quotes edition in 2021 as Halloween approached, documenting examples of some of the scariest things…
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Thankful nonprofit quotes
About My Work, Board Development, Consulting, Fundraising, Human Resources, Leadership, Strategic Planning, VolunteersLast month, in the spirit of Halloween, I shared the scariest things I’ve heard uttered by nonprofit leaders. As a counterpoint, this month I offer up some “thankful” comments about…
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Scary nonprofit quotes
In honor of Halloween 2021, here are the the scariest things I’ve heard from nonprofit leaders. These are paraphrases as I wasn’t writing them down at the time. If you…
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Ticket to Ride and nonprofit leadership
One of my pandemic “weaknesses” has been the amount of time I’ve spent playing Ticket to Ride – the online version. For those not familiar with the game, you can…
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The Ten Commandments of Fundraising
When I first became Executive Director of the Oregon League of Conservation Voters, one of my early conversations was with Sam Schuchat, who was my counterpart at the California LCV.…