Leaders, How Strong Is Your Mistake-Owning Muscle?
Being a good leader doesn’t mean you have to be perfect. On the contrary, the one top tested behavior when it comes to positively impacting your team’s job satisfaction and plan to stay is your ability to admit when you are wrong. Previously, research across...
Are Donors Even Reading Your Emails? 13 Pro Tips to Help You Write Better Emails
Recently on our team Slack channel, our coaches shared that we send a lot of these tips to our clients about how to write an effective email, so I thought it would be a great resource to share them here so they’re all in one place for your easy reference. Here are...
What Kind of Home Have Your Created for Your Donor? (#1 of 6)
This blog post is the first in a series of six titled, “The House Your Donor Lives In.” It’s good to be home. You’ve said that many times, haven’t you? I have. There is something about coming home – where things are familiar, where you feel you belong,...
When You Can’t See the Trees for the Forest
Yes, I know the phrase is “can’t see the forest for the trees,” and it calls out how we can get so wrapped up in the details that we can’t see the situation as a whole. But the opposite is also true, and it’s a significant problem in relationship management...
Leaders, Are You Standing in the Way of Bigger Gifts?
Leaders, I know that it can feel like a tricky balancing act. How do you push for your fundraisers to make bigger asks without pressuring them into a transactional approach with donors? Let’s say you just heard that a donor gave half a million dollars to the...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
