I wish I could give you this for Christmas
Let me tell you a story about my family. My family came to visit me in October. We were sitting at a restaurant, and my dad got a waiter to take a picture of all of us. It was sweet. It was heartwarming. And then before I knew it was happening, he posted it on […]
The Fundraising Art of War?
How can you use Sun Tzu’s Art of War for your nonprofit? Recently I bought a book called The Art of War plus the Art of Marketing by Sun Tzu and Gary Gagliardi. I had never read the art of war, so I didn’t know what to expect. Frankly, it sounded like a marketer making […]
15 ideas for virtual volunteers from the Virtual Volunteering Guidebook
Do you have a hard time getting your volunteers to stay? Are you just dissatisfied with the quality of the volunteers you have? Did you know there are so many more people in the world who want to volunteer, who are feeling stymied by nonprofits not getting back to them when they try to volunteer […]
This one tool is essential to major gifts asks
What is that tool? I often get nonprofit clients asking me, why can’t I just talk about the grant we got or the number of people we help? Why do I have to say what we’re doing around the office? What’s the point? Look at the picture above. Last week I sent it out in […]
6 tips to be a better nonprofit manager
Here’s my first post about Brene Brown’s incredible 2012 book, Daring Greatly. This week I want to talk about what you can do to be a better nonprofit manager, using the concept of vulnerability. Chances are, if you’re supervising someone, they are very much afraid that you’re going to drop a shame trip on them. […]
What can you do to succeed in fundraising?
That may be the wrong kind of question! It might be more important to fail in fundraising as many ways as possible. I picked up this book, This Will Make You Smarter and was pleasantly surprised at how many essays in this book could be applied to fundraising. In Kevin Kelly’s essay in the book […]