It’s Shark Week, Discovery Channel’s week-long series dedicated to the dynamic creatures. What do sharks and successful fundraisers have in common? Extraordinary listening skills and the ability to pick up on non-verbal cues. Sharks can hear low frequency ...
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Category Archives: Nonprofit Management
Shark Week for Nonprofits: It’s About Movement
It’s Shark Week, Discovery Channel’s week-long series dedicated to the dynamic creatures. What do nonprofits have to do with sharks? It’s all about relationships and movement in relationships. “A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to ...
Meaningful Nonprofit Data
Every presentation I attended at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hit on the importance of data and measurement. Why data? It allows us to learn, improve, and have greater impact as nonprofit organizations. But to do so, it needs to ...
More Mission, More Money
An underlying takeaway of each and every presentation and conversation at last week’s fantastic Nonprofit Technology Conference: The more mission (impact) your nonprofit has and shares with the world, the more money it will receive earn. ...
Nonprofit Resolution: Don’t Be Everything to Everyone
Yesterday, nonprofit superstars contributed Six Resolutions to Advance Nonprofit Impact in 2012. Now it’s my turn. Here’s what you can do in 2012 to effectively serve your nonprofit mission: Many nonprofits suffer from what I call Everything ...
Six Resolutions to Advance Nonprofit Impact in 2012
It’s time for the ball to drop on 2012. Some of the best and brightest contributed their resolutions for nonprofits in the New Year – ideas and strategies nonprofits can implement to advance their impact and more effectively serve the mission: 1. Get Back to the Basics
Don’t Throw in the Holiday Towel
There are 33 days left in 2011. That is 33 days left to make a difference – build and strengthen relationships and impact the lives you serve. Now is not the time to sit back and wait to process year-end ...
Nonprofits: Let’s Take Back October
When the calendar turns to October in the nonprofit sector, it means one thing: breast cancer awareness month. With increased criticism behind the pink ribbon movement, pink washing, many critics (and “cause bandits”) question the effectiveness of the over-saturated pink market. “We ...
Nurture Confidence, Nurture Giving
I recently participated in a discussion about our education system and how it is/is not working and how this may impact higher education. The conversation inspired me to think about what I took away from my education, including school-related extracurricular activities. School was never ...
Salaries & Nonprofit Work
There was another great #fundchat discussion last night. The topic centered on ethics in fundraising. Near the end of the conversation participants were asked about commission-based fundraising pay. The discussion then turned in to an issue of ...
