October 31, 2019
What If Your Staff Loved to Help Fundraise?

What if every staff member at your nonprofit loved to fundraise? Believed it was part of their job, no matter their job title, to find[…]

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October 28, 2019
5 Fundraising Mistakes Nonprofits Make with Staff

Every nonprofit needs staff to support its income development efforts. When you ask your staff to help, do you encounter hesitation? Avoidance? Or even overt[…]

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October 18, 2019
Are Your Fundraising Projections Realistic? Find Out in 5 Minutes

Joe was hired four months after the start of the new fiscal year. Among other duties, he was asked to raise money. The income he[…]

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October 17, 2019
The Best Nonprofits Run a Surplus, Do You?

Will your nonprofit run a surplus this year? Imagine what it would be like to have funds to put aside for a rainy day. Imagine[…]

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October 14, 2019
How Can You, Like the Best Nonprofits, Run a Surplus?

If you want to run a surplus at your nonprofit, two options exist: Live within means or Grow your income. I assume you don’t want[…]

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August 22, 2019
How to Make Your Annual Appeal a Smashing Success

Imagine it’s January 1, and you just closed your best calendar year ever. Your annual appeal brought in twice the amount as last year. New[…]

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August 19, 2019
How to Plan Your Annual Appeal Fundraising Campaign

The Play’s the Thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King. -William Shakespeare In this line from Hamlet, Hamlet reveals how he’ll expose his uncle’s[…]

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August 1, 2019
Planned Giving: The Most Important Activity You Never Do

Here’s something I noticed working with consulting, coaching, and mentoring clients and talking to hundreds of nonprofit leaders. You rarely get to your most important[…]

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July 4, 2019
Does Your Budget Support Growth, Maintenance or Decay?

Many of you will begin a new fiscal year shortly. Next year, does your new budget project growth, maintenance, or decay?  

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June 20, 2019
Do Your Donors Trust You? Good Donor Stewardship

Are you making a dirty ask? Is your gratitude really a disguised donation request? Let’s face it. You need revenue. So when a donor gives[…]

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