I’ve noticed some nonprofits have opted to stop printing an annual report and mailing it to their donors to save the expense of postage and printing costs. That’s sort of like saying, “Thanks for your gift, but we don’t care, … Read More
When I was new to fundraising and nonprofit work many moons ago, one of the first books I purchased was “Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits,” by Ilona Bray. I literally devoured this book in days. It became my “go to” book … Read More
Recently, I gave a seminar about special events to a group of nonprofit professionals. One of the questions asked was how to quantify staff time in the calculation of creating a successful fundraising event. Of course, staff time is important, there is … Read More
A great colleague in the filed and a superb blogger on philanthropy, Maeve Strathy (@fundraisermaeve) kindly published a guest blog post I wrote for her on being the “Chief Everything Officer” and how to delegate duties and manage your time when … Read More
I’m just crazy about this excellent blog post from fundraising colleague, Mary Calahane in Connecticut! Mary and I think alike - my takeaways from the article are these: Fundraising is painful for board members when board members are just handed … Read More
Don’t let your fundraising solicitations end up in the junk mail pile. Let’s face it. We all get too much postal mail, and most of it is unwanted junk. Busy people pile up their postal mail and take just a … Read More