I’m sitting in my office finally taking the time to read the Public Agenda Research Reports: The Charitable Impulse. This study interviewed donors and charity leaders to find out each others’ perceptions. Reading the comments of donors versus the...
FUNDRAISING BASICS: Get R.E.A.L! Engage! All too often, we’re totally backwards about asking people for money. Asking so fills us with fear that we put off the inevitable as long as possible. But at some point, our organizations goes into a financial crisis, and...
Good morning! Today I’m in a wet Charleston, SC at Blackbaud’s Conference on Philanthropy. I’m learning lots already. (I’ve even was able to attend a Jars of Clay concert. Sara Groves and Chris Rice also performed. It was incredible. Ok, that...
I. FUNDRAISING BASICS: Get R.E.A.L.! Peer Reviews & The CPI Index In our last edition, we were discussing some different ways to do the “research” step of the Get R.E.A.L.! Process (Research, Engage, Ask, Live/Like/Love). Now, let’s look at two...
I. FUNDRAISING BASICS: Get R.E.A.L.! Research II. RESOURCE SPOTLIGHT: Blackbaud’s Conference on Philanthropy I. FUNDRAISING BASICS: Get R.E.A.L.! I love asking people for money! I like to think of the fundraiser as holding an electrical cord (the donor’s...
