We’ve made an entire industry out of those terrible gifts we used to get at the holidays.  Ugly Christmas sweaters are now a staple of...

1.  Is your Fundraising transactional or transformative? 2.  Is your Fundraising driven by the mission or the budget? 3.  Is your...

We adopted Tucker when he was just 9 weeks old.  How he got to the rescue org, we don’t know, but we do know he was a puppy mill puppy...

Disrupt. Innovate. Think bigger, think differently! All valuable advice.  In fact, innovation is often listed as one of the most...

Sometimes, to make truly lasting, important, substantive change we have to honor what came before. We weren’t there for the little...

Probably.  If you read any recent reports or statistics, yeah, we’ve got a lot of work to do.  Fundraising Effectiveness Project,...

WONDERFUL post today from Amy Eisenstein on Nonprofit Job Titles.  Touch of humor and some really good points.  We’re seeing trends in...

Sat through another meeting where Fundraising was referred to as “the F word” . . . . ha ha ha, giggle giggle, ’cause it’s a bad word. I...

There’s a lot of ugly in the world right now. There’s a lot to feel angry and dejected about and there’s a lot of negativity and...

Everything anyone needs to know about fundraising can be summed up in a five-step process. Find prospects who are concerned about The...

There are literally 5 versions of this blog in my drafts folder.  I keep coming back to it because the question keeps coming up and I...