Thoughts on Nonprofit Leadership
To really excite your board about fundraising, focus on a transformational fundraising strategy rather than a transactional one. If your board is reluctant to fundraise, you may be giving board members transactional fundraising tasks to oversee, like asking for money and monitoring revenues....
Board members may resist fundraising. They may see raising money as solely management’s responsibility, not knowing their proper role. Or they get caught up in all operational details involved in planning and executing fundraising activities and don’t understand why the development...
Your board is the most valuable leadership asset your nonprofit has. Board members teach your community how to interact with your nonprofit. And you want your community to be excited about your cause and financially support your mission. You need board members who carry your message to the world....
Is your board excited about fundraising?
Mine wasn’t. When I first became an executive director, one of the first things my board said to me was, “We are not a fundraising board. That’s why we hired you.”
Ugh. I knew I had my work cut out for me if finances were going to...
Do you, as executive director, want to increase your nonprofit’s capacity without increasing the budget? It can be done.
Meet the maternal health education agency whose funding was about 80 percent from government, just under 20 percent from foundations, and the rest individual donations....
This week, I give you excerpts from my book The Sustainable High ROI Fundraising System to guide you in hiring fundraising staff.
The Development Director’s Role
“A development director is a fundraising generalist with skills and experience in a wide variety of revenue...
Executive directors must accomplish a lot of daily tasks, while also dealing with unforeseen emergencies. No matter how well you plan your week, something urgent always crops up. Making the job frenetic. As an executive director, in any one day you:
- Manage operations
- Satisfy funders and...
This week we are exploring how a small change in your marketing strategy can make a big difference in your fundraising results. To explain, here are a couple of excerpts from my latest book The Sustainable High ROI Fundraising System.
Targeting Donors
“Attracting donors takes time and...
You’re an executive director. Finances are tight. You need to grow your fundraising capacity but don’t have the money to do it. What do you do?
Most nonprofit leaders focus on executing those fundraising activities that raise the most gross revenues, not accounting for costs,...
