A few weeks back, I posted this question: Q: As an E.D., what percentage of my time should be spent on fund raising? I am relatively new at this and want to balance my schedule. My answer was something like, “100%.” And I got some comeuppance. Here are some of the comments: Roger Carr responded: [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Donor Evangelists'
Nonprofit Executive Director and Fundraising Revisited
June 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments
Tags: 3. Ask · Donor Evangelists · Question Marc?
Using Twitter and Facebook in your year-end fundraising letter strategy
November 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Last time, we looked at creating a year-end strategy for fundraising letters. But in today’s world, it’s wise to consider complementing these appeals with tools like Facebook and Twitter. According to FundRaising Success Magazine: Between 35 percent to 42 percent of online giving happens in November and December each year, and the average gift during [...]
Tags: 3. Ask · Donor Evangelists · Fundraising Secrets
Development and Social Media in a nutshell
October 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments
In the last three weeks, I’ve given five talks about social media and fundraising to various groups of development officers. Today I was asked to sum up one of the sessions. Summing up social media without slides is challenging but here was my attempt: Social media is real Social media is “social”—be prepared to dialogue [...]
Tags: 2. Engage · 3. Ask · Donor Evangelists · Fundraising Secrets
Ostrich Mentality: Social Media and Storytelling
April 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
The latest edition of FundRaising Success Magazine has a terrific article by Bryan Schoell called Get Your Head Out of the Sand. Here’s the begining: People are talking about you online. Ignoring that fact won’t make it go away, so you’d best join in the conversation. Yesterday, the mother of a sick child Googled the [...]
Tags: 2. Engage · Donor Evangelists
Nonprofit hospitals still raise Sen. Grassley’s ire
September 16th, 2008 · No Comments
The Chronicle of Philanthropy is reporting that Sen. Grassley is continuing his push to increase regulations on nonprofit hospitals. I work in one and didn’t think the regulation could get any tighter–especially for small community hospitals with a large reliance on Medicaid and Medicare! His focus and intensity on this issue seems to me to [...]
Tags: 2. Engage · 4. Love (Stewardship) · Donor Evangelists
