by Marc A. Pitman | Mar 11, 2020 | 3. Ask, Board Members, Fundraising Secrets
The media is full of stories about how this Covid-19 coronavirus is impacting the economy. Gatherings are getting canceled. People are self-quarantining. And donors who are freaking out watching their investments shrink. Last month, I shared some ideas on fundraising...
by Marc A. Pitman | Feb 25, 2020 | 3. Ask, Board Members, Fundraising Secrets
Leaders are an amazing group. They regularly tackle issues no one else is willing to. And, in the midst of being pulled apart by multiple interest groups, they figure out which priorities to focus on. Leadership is not for the faint of heart! Add to that the tensions...
by Marc A. Pitman | Feb 18, 2020 | 3. Ask
If you’re one of my private coaching clients, you’ve already heard me ask: what preparations are you making for the possibility that your fundraising event might be canceled due to the coronavirus (now officially called Covid-19)? The numbers of coronavirus seem to...
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by Marc A. Pitman | Jan 3, 2020 | 3. Ask, Guest Posts
Changing the way you think about money is a vital key to becoming successful at fundraising. In this guest post, Andrea Waltz points out an important area for us to address. Andrea is the author of “Go for No! Yes is the destination, No is how you get...
by Marc A. Pitman | Nov 19, 2019 | 3. Ask
I recently tweeted “your discomfort with asking is getting in the way of a donor’s joy in giving. So get out of the way!” (Click here to tweet that.) Since then, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how to get over the discomfort! How to...
by Marc A. Pitman | Oct 22, 2019 | 3. Ask, Fundraising Secrets
Today I was honored to give a webinar with CiviCore on data and impactful stories. I shared one researcher’s experience with stumbling on to a form of a story. Then look at studies about using statistics in fundraising versus not using any statistics. We saw...
