If you’re interested in breaking the analysis paralysis cycle of your fundraising team, look at resources to develop your skills as a fundraising coach.
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Most of us as fundraisers will face ethical issues that are not always clear cut. Pair this with the fact that we are under ever increasing pressure to perform in an economy where people and organizations are forced to consider their dwindling resources when making donations, and you have fertile ground for ethical obstacles that are difficult to navigate.
Many make the mistake, when thinking about “major gifts,” of thinking of a specific minimum dollar threshold. Instead, begin thinking “major gifts” as “inspired gifts” made in response to a personal ask.
Every campaign experiences ebbs and flows in momentum. Throughout it all, it is important that the visionary leader of the organization and others maintain an unfailingly up-beat attitude. Just as the converse is true, a positive attitude can be contagious. People back a winning team.
Months ago, I attended a great workshop hosted by a social-networking support group. The event was an overview on how and why to dive in head-first to social networking. We looked at tools and content – how best to introduce yourself and your business to your virtual audience, and why it is necessary in this increasingly digital world to do so.
I have since thought a great deal about that workshop. The most disquieting about it wasn’t the long list of on-line tools with which I’d yet to become familiar. It was the fact that, other than the person who’d alerted me to the workshop, I was the only person in the room with any relation to the nonprofit industry. Read More