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...
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...
Why Most Fundraising Is Ineffective
If the main purpose of a non-profit is to address a societal problem, then it follows that securing the resources to address that problem is the other major objective. I talked about this in a blog I wrote earlier this year. But why does securing the resources...
Top Tips from a Recruiting Expert on Hiring Your Next Frontline Fundraiser
There are few topics as frequently talked about right now as issues with hiring and retaining fundraisers. This issue has persisted for years, but recently it has become increasingly problematic for non-profits. With many organizations struggling to fill vacant...
How Nervous Is Your Board?
Last month, I had the privilege of presenting our donor analysis and The Veritus Way to a new client’s leadership and board development committee. They had recently hired us. But in a span of just three months, their Executive Director, Development Director, and Major...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
