Last week, I was at a meeting and heard a board member say: “Ask a man for advice, and he’ll give you money. Ask a man for money, and he’ll give you advice. Isn’t that the truth? Think about the times you as a board member or nonprofit employee...
Fall is upon us and that means year-end giving is right around the corner. If you haven’t written your year end appeals over the summer, then now is the time to get those done! As a broad generalization, I recommend sending a mailing: now (late Aug/early Sept) in...
Today, August 28, is the day you’ve long been waiting for: National Bowtie Day! To celebrate this sartorially splendorific day, I’m giving away my bowtie cards for free. True, I always give them away for free. But today, I’ll even mail them to you. 🙂...
Like to be entered Facebook promotions used to be a weird thing. Nonprofits did them but technically, they risked Facebook deleting their page. Facebooks changes its terms again. This time for the good! Now according to Facebook’s blog you can run those...
I get lots of questions similar to this all the time: Quick question: Do you have a few favorite donor database software recommendations. Especially for collecting donor giving habits. My answer Here are the ones I hear good things about from clients. I’m most...