INTERVIEW: Ellen Bristol Fundraising the SMART Way

If you are wondering what to do about your funding in this new funding reality, WE ARE GOING TO HELP YOU! The Nonprofit Leadership Summit is coming up this September, and we want to help you get ready to face the funding music.   Hey, everybody. Welcome. This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising […]

Here are the tools you should have in your capital campaign toolbox

Just joining us? Learn how much money should you have pledged before you go live with your capital campaign? Learn the 4 steps for pre-campaign planning, the 5 steps of a capital campaign, and why you can’t just get 1,000 $1K gifts. Learn the answers in the first 2 parts of this interview. If you […]

INTERVIEW: Growing Your Monthly Giving Program with Erica Waasdorp

MT: Hey, everybody. Welcome. This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising and I am so pleased today to be interviewing Erica Waasdorp, who wrote Monthly Giving: The Sleeping Giant, and who is also the president of A Direct Solution. She will be teaching at our Nonprofit Leadership Summit. Erica, can you give some people […]

10 Songs That Are on Every Fundraiser’s Playlist

Recently I was reading about Pythagoras, and his musical theories. In the book, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Hall writes, “Pythagoras had such a marked preference for stringed instruments that he even went so far as to warn his disciples against allowing their ears to be defiled by the sounds of flutes or cymbals. […]

Book review: Mindset, A New Psychology of Success

Were you ever in a position to teach someone who seemed very smart? How did you teach them? Have you ever taught someone who seemed very stupid? What did you change in your approach to help them learn? The book, Mindset by Carol Dweck, talks about two kinds of people in the world. One set […]