by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 4, 2006 | Education Opportunities
The lovely folks at Blackbaud have asked me to do two seminars. If you’re coming to Conference for Nonprofits in South Carolina this October 22-25, you can find me doing “Creating Donor Evangelists” on Monday and “Asking For Money: Taking the...
by Marc A. Pitman | Aug 25, 2006 | Events
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...
by Marc A. Pitman | Aug 23, 2006 | 3. Ask, Samples & Tools, Stories
In my decade or so of doing fundraising, I don’t ever remember having a community member tell me they really liked a fundraising letter I sent them. This summer it happened! Someone at the gym I go to told me how much they enjoyed the letter they’d just...
by Marc A. Pitman | Aug 22, 2006 | 3. Ask, Book Review
We’ve spent the last few issues of Extreme Fundraising looking at the importance of story. While reading Jeffrey Fox’s “How to Become a Rainmaker” I recently read a question that will help you tell your story. Right at the beginning of the book...
by Marc A. Pitman | Aug 22, 2006 | Stories
A few weeks back, a reader asked me for examples of organizations that told their stories well. I drew a blank. Do you know of any groups that you think are telling their story well? Let me know by making a comment to this blog post. One group that is incredibly...
