The Wind Is at Your Back. What Are YOU Going to Do?
You may have heard that there’s a new fundraising report out called the Philanthropy Outlook by Lilly School of Philanthropy and sponsored by CCS. Basically, the report says that the forecast for 2024 and 2025 is that overall, giving will go up 4.2% and 3.9%. For...
Your Mission Is More Than You Think It Is
I read quite a few online news journals covering non-profits. Essentially, every week I’m reading stories about how donors are taken for granted, how organizations lament how much donor and value attrition is going on, how fundraisers are leaving every 13-18 months,...
Get Your Donors to Stop Stressing About How the Money is Spent!
Donors worry too much about how their money will be spent. That’s the growing sentiment of many progressive non-profits. Recently, I read a January 2024 Special Report in The Economist, No-strings philanthropy is giving charities more decision-making power, that...
Get Back to Simple and Effective in 2024
Nothing surprises us anymore. We’ve seen a lot of things in organizations large and small from many parts of the world in the years we have been doing this work and, because of this, we have stories to tell that would amuse, shock, and amaze you. Recently, someone...
Do You Really Need to Host Another Fundraising Event?
For a long time, hosting donor events and fancy galas was the be-all and end-all of fundraising. But in our post-pandemic world, it’s hard to argue that they serve anything more than a publicity function. Even before the pandemic showed how unreliable events are as a...TOP RATED PODCAST
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