The Evolving Non-Profit Board
The board is the most intimate donor, volunteer and advocate constituency. Board members sit at the heart of the organization, making decisions that impact many lives.
Rethinking Donor Fatigue
I want to reflect on a topic I was discussing this week - donor competition. I have a pretty hard head, but after hearing from thousands and thousands of donors over the years (face-to- face, through survey and by phone) I finally started to understand that donor fatigue and competition for donor money are really issues of incongruence.
13 Timeless Keys to Increasing Donor Giving
I thought this month I would revisit research I did about 18 years ago on keys to increasing giving to an organization. This was the result of researching 15 different national studies on increasing giving, along with other research that had assessed thousands of donors. I narrowed all of the research down to 13 critical things that were present in all of the research, no matter what the focus of the constituency.
Finding Renewal in What’s Old and New
This month I want to draw on that sense of renewal and share a few things from some recent research that illustrate renewal doesn’t always mean new, smile.