I’m pleased to announce the Ask Without Fear! Radio Show is starting today!
This radio show will be hosted through BlogTalkRadio.com at 11 a.m. (I chose 11 a.m. because it’ll be the start of the day for our West Coast colleagues and the end of the day for our European listeners.)
Today’s guest is, Jay [...]
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Ask Without Fear Radio Show starts today!
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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Galas–the dying gasp of poor fundraising?
December 12th, 2006 · 3 Comments
The end of the year is rapidly approaching, so I thought I’d keep this issue of Extreme Fundraising light-hearted. Read this posting from Amy Kincaid and her Fundraising Breakthroughs blog gave me the fodder for this riff. This was posted on her blog:
Quotable excerpts on the danger of “fundraising” galas by leading advisors to nonprofits. [...]
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More on non-events
September 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment
Cher Hersrud of the The Resource Center in Fargo, ND posted these ideas to the CharityChannel CharityTalk list. (Posted with her permission.)
A couple of examples of the non-event from North Dakota:
a theatre sold tickets for a Dark Night - people tayed home, the theatre was closed - little time/money invested, pretty good return.
a church held [...]
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Have you thought of a non-event?
August 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments
We’ve had an interesting discussion on the AHP email list on holding “non-events,” events that raise money but don’t have any real event.
Rodger Wetzel from ND gave these great suggestions:
One example: A Non-event
Send out invitations that say something like: (Your organization) is holding its first annual Black Tie Non-Event. The event will NOT take place [...]
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