May 22, 2019 | Fundraising Adventures
Your organization’s budget is so much more than an exercise in number crunching; it becomes your to-do list for the year. Your budget becomes the primary method of communicating your organization’s values. As a nonprofit leader, you know that if it makes it into the...
Apr 29, 2019 | Fundraising Adventures
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. It is impossible to believe but nonprofit leaders can and do resist using volunteers. Volunteers give their time, talent and...
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 20, 2019 | Fundraising Adventures
Solving major societal problems such as poverty, hunger or global warming isn’t for sissies. If we’re serious about resolving these issues in the nonprofit sector, it’s going to take a large group of champions and superheroes all fighting on the same team. If...
Jan 23, 2019 | Fundraising Adventures
January is the month we devote to big goals, fresh starts and new practices. If your nonprofit’s Big Goal for 2019 is winning large awards from grant makers, then getting ‘grant ready’ is your first priority. Get Competitive No matter the age, size or operating budget...
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