This is a tremendous opportunity-Interview with Andy Robinson

Andy Robinson, author of Selling Social Change, and Training Your Board, and Everyone Else to Fundraise, was kind enough to let me interview him about the new funding environment-and he had a surprising perspective! Give 22 minutes of your time and listen to Andy Robinson’s 30 years of experience on these current funding threats to […]

How can you make your nonprofit writing more persuasive?

Yesterday we talked about what makes people turn around their criticism about your nonprofit when you’re speaking about your cause in person. If you haven’t read that post yet, go read it now. I’ll wait. Are we back? What about if you’re WRITING to people instead of talking with them (and listening to them?)   […]

11 ways to make today better in your fundraising office

It’s a new year! TIME FOR A FRESH START! šŸ™‚ I seem to talk mostly about what is wrong with our sector, and I confess it is beginning to weigh on my spirit. I actually had a lot of fun sometimes when I was working full time at nonprofits. Here are the things that would […]

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 […]