How can you build your fundraising army?
You know and I know that there’s no budget to hire more people to help you out. You and I know that you’ve needed more help for a long time. Someone to come and help you design that brochure. Or someone to stuff envelopes. Someone to go get those auction items. Someone to go research […]
3 Places to Recruit Your Board Volunteers
If your nonprofit is new, making a tiny amount of money with events, or has a disengaged board, it might be time to get new board members. Where do you find them? You want people high up in a corporation, so that they can approve thousands to sponsor your event, or a year-end gift […]
INTERVIEW: Engaging Younger Donors with Devin Kelly, Founder of Oregon Active
How can you engage younger donors? Listen in to find out what one scrappy young nonprofit is doing.
Who are you, really?
David McRaney over at the You Are Not So Smart blog, wrote a fascinating post about the nature of how to deal with haters, AND how to deal with motivation. It’s seriously in depth and I highly encourage you to read the whole thing. It blew my mind. The Misconception: You do nice things for […]
Part 3: Managing Volunteers 101
You’ve got a good group of volunteers, but now you need to keep them. You have to think of creative ways to keep your volunteers with you, because these volunteers will be the backbone of your nonprofit. Volunteers give 10x as much as non-volunteers, because they have hands-on experience of how your nonprofit makes a […]
Part 2: Managing Volunteers 101
Getting Corporate Volunteers is SUCH a good idea. They can potentially sit on your board, or help you get sponsorships for your annual event, and they can also do big corporate volunteering projects to get even more people engaged and aware of your nonprofit. Why would corporations want to volunteer with you? Because they will […]