Aug 26, 2020 | Fundraising Adventures
For every person making a gift to a charity, there is someone who quits giving. With the average industry retention rate at a dismal 45%, it appears only an elite bunch have found the winning formula for success in fundraising. Experts tell us if we focus on...
Apr 29, 2019 | Adventures In Life
In my blog this month, I address staff resistance to using volunteers in nonprofits. If you’re not a nonprofit ‘native’, you probably think the idea that any charity rejects free help is ridiculous! Trust me, it happens every day in nonprofits of all sizes and cause...
Apr 24, 2019 | Fundraising Adventures
America’s nonprofits could not survive without volunteers and they play a key role in helping charities raise more money from the community. Volunteers give their time, talent and treasure to the causes they support, and organizations with a robust culture of...
Mar 20, 2019 | Fundraising Adventures
Some nonprofits seem to have ‘the luck of the Irish.’ They win the big grants, they attract the big money donors, and they grow and thrive in seemingly rocky soil. It looks effortless to you, from the outside, so it’s easy to believe they have a supernatural secret to...
Feb 28, 2019 | Adventures In Life
I am over the moon excited to announce the marriage of my daughter Cassandra on February 15, 2019! Family and friends gathered in the sunshine to see Cassie and Gavin Clark marry on Baby Beach in Kauai, Hawaii! Their love story began a decade ago at the Academy...
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