It amazes me how frequently I encounter barriers to giving. Since it happens to me, it happens to other donors, too. What barriers do you[…]

Build relationships. Nonprofit professionals say this phrase constantly. But what does that mean? For example, how can you build a relationship with someone you meet[…]

“We’ve found thank-you lunches to be very effective,” explains Judith Mitchell, CEO of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida.[…]

Donors frequently tell me that philanthropic giving feels overwhelming. Overwhelmed comes from too many choices, too much need, and often our concern that we have[…]

Do you want more donations to operate your nonprofit? Too often, individual fundraising becomes the task of the few. Alone or together, the development director[…]

On the sidewalk by the busy highway, a scruffy man squatted. He was loading beer cans into a plastic grocery sack. After he loaded three,[…]

“Of course, it would be better if all our donors were deceased,” said Jim, an executive director, only partially joking about donor stewardship work. Do[…]

There are two types of nonprofit income: earned and donated (and seven streams of income; see 7 Nonprofit Income Streams: Open the Floodgates to Sustainability!)[…]

Last week at my presentation, “They Don’t Get It” to the Southwest FL Chapter of AFP (the Association of Fundraising Professionals,) the audience members asked[…]

1. “Thank you, you gift made a difference.” View this as the start of the conversation not the end. 2. “Here’s specifically how your gifts[…]