Reflecting on 2012 — How did YOU do on those Resolutions?
Wow, can you believe 2012 is about to come to a close? I can’t. This year has just flown by. Naturally, at this point in December, I begin to think about all that has happened this past year and then I remembered that exactly a year ago I wrote the “Six New Year’s...They Spoke Well Of Me
When you sum up all that you have done this year, will the overwhelming opinion be that you did well? I hope that’s true for you. I also hope that’s true for me. When Jeff and I think about major gift fundraising and how we did this year and what people thought was...Getting The Heart Along With The Cash
“I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Several posts ago I told you that the giving and getting of gifts is a difficult thing for me. Here’s why. I was sent off to a boarding school in another country when I was six...No Donor Pays For Overhead!
There is something about overhead that is so toxic to major gift officers that they literally run away from it every time it gets close to them. And it’s not only MGOs that are repulsed by the topic. Managers and leaders feel pretty squeamish about it too. You bring...Do You HAVE needs or do you MEET needs?
There is not a non-profit on the face of the earth that has a need. Not one. Think about it. What need does a non-profit have? Well, you could argue that a non-profit needs money, talent, publicity, gifts in kind, etc. But why does it need these things? To get it’s...TOP RATED PODCAST
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