6 Tips for Making Your Fundraising Program Better
3. Master the art of continuous improvement even in the face of set-backs, which are inevitable.
Teaching other people how to fundraise
Are you the lone development person, or even part of a small team? What is one of your biggest problems? If you answered “Capacity” I think you’d be right. How can you build your capacity to raise more money? Well, you can’t put more hours in the day, and you can’t hire more people. Budgets […]
20 Money Saving Tips for Fundraisers
3. Batch your fundraising appeal letters. Send out 150 at a time. Test out different messages, graphs, charts, quotes, pictures, see what works with who. This way you can avoid an appeal letter that bombs.
Shut your Facebook: 3 tips for a digital detox
How many hours per day do you spend online? How many minutes per day do you text? How much time do you spend looking at a blinking screen? Are you totally productive for all of this time, or is there some time when you’re just wasting time? How do you feel when you’re wasting time? […]
Your Overhead is In Your Head. All of the money is going to the cause.
So, you’re talking to a donor and the first thing they want to know is: How much of this donation goes to the cause?
This has become the only standard by which a nonprofit is judged deserving on funds. And this is truly sad.
Why your nonprofit is so damn reactionary
When you discourage long-term vision, you institutionalize suffering.
When funders and donors have a need for immediate gratification, your nonprofit always loses.