You Can’t Win the Race If You Are Looking Out of the Boat
After a brief stint on the crew team in college, I ended up serving as a rowing coach and coxswain for a local rowing club in my hometown for a little over a decade. Being the little person jammed into the “back” seat is about more than just yelling stuff, which is...Lessons Learned about Fundraising in the Pandemic
My last trip to see a client onsite was February 28, 2020. After I flew home, a friend who is a virologist gave me some masks, wipes, and advice to buy three weeks of groceries “just in case.” So I did. (If he’d told me to buy toilet paper, I’d have said he was a...Taking Control of Your Fundraising: The Power of Feasibility-Based Goals
How nice would it be to set a fundraising dollar goal that you had confidence in? Around now, many programs are developing goals for the coming fiscal year. I’ll be the first to say that fundraisers are a fundamentally optimistic community by nature – it’s part of...So Many Reasons Not to Give
It’s amazing that we raise as much money as we do, given the many reasons why people should not give. Read on to see the very special solicitation letter I created for my first April post.