by Veritus Group | Aug 30, 2024 | Fundraising, Non-Profit Leadership, Non-profit Management | Fundraising, Leadership, Major Gifts, Management
In our consulting work, we see a lot of the same issues come up that are preventing non-profits from seeing greater success in major gifts. So for this Question of the Month, we’re sharing some of the most common and avoidable issues we’ve seen – not to embarrass...
by Jeff Schreifels | Jul 5, 2024 | Change, Corporate Culture, Culture Change, Culture of Philanthropy, Non-Profit Leadership, Organization Culture | Culture of Philanthropy, Leadership, Management
Many non-profit organizations fail to realize that their mission to make the world a better place starts with their own internal culture. When staff are overworked, underpaid, and unappreciated, you’ll see high turnover and low morale. But how do you begin to address...
by Karen Kendrick | Jun 7, 2024 | Communication, Empathy, mistakes, Non-Profit Leadership | Communication, Executive Directors, Leadership, Management, Personal Development
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...
by Karen Kendrick | Apr 3, 2024 | Employee Management, Leaders, Non-Profit Leadership, Non-profit Management, Transformational Gifts | Communication, Curiousity, Executive Directors, High Givers, Leadership, Management
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...
by Jeff Schreifels | Mar 11, 2024 | Donor Retention, Donors as Mission, Employee Retention, Mission, Non-Profit Leadership, Priorities, Retention | Donors as Mission, Hiring and Retaining Staff, Mission, Non-Profits, Prioritizing
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,...