How did year-end giving season go for you? Have you thought about hosting a data-dump party yet for your team? If not, do it! And, please, for the love of the fundraising profession everywhere, make it fun! Choose a theme and make it fun – Data superheroes, data monsters, show me the data and we’ll […]
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A Guide to Starting Your Fundraising Year Strong
How are you investing in yourself and your people this year? Our People – donors, staff, volunteers, leaders, board members and YOU – make our fundraising practices unique from mission to mission. Somehow, we all come together and create strategies, practices and investments to enhance, grow and make our missions come to life. Here are […]
Top 10 Ways to Jumpstart Individual Giving in the New Year
Strategy is such a big concept! Does it include planning, goals, metrics, accountability, intentionality? Yep. All of those and more. Building and refining fundraising strategies is something we hear in our work regularly. The bottom line is you must be intentional with how you raise the funds necessary for your organization to carry out its […]
As a New Year Kicks Off, Make Sure Your Case for Support is Up to Date
What we say and how we say it matters. Balancing urgency, impact and empathy is the goal when sharing information to stakeholders about how to support your mission and vision for your organization. Wordsmithing can be tedious but it’s important to get it right! Do you work better with a blank sheet of paper or […]
