Sometimes, we get so used to using something, we don’t realize we’re using it the wrong way. Here are three tools that nonprofits use all the time. And many use the wrong way. Common uses and a better way Donor Database Common use: Recording gifts and...
An executive coaching client recently asked me about my favorite 2 or 3 leadership books. Here are the first five that came to mind. Not surprisingly, each one is within easy reach of my desk. And I find myself thinking about their concepts or quoting them practically...
Yesterday I wrote about Giving USA’s 2013 Report and the highlights about giving last year. At the end of the npVOICES interview with Gregg Carlson of the Giving USA Foundation, Steve MacLaughlin asked for Gregg’s impressions for fundraisers. With 50 years...
A couple weeks ago, I gave a series of lectures at the Funding Your Ministry Symposium to over 100 coaches from around the world. These people represented 48 different missionary associations including large organizations like The Navigators, InterVarsity, Cru, YWAM,...
I run into so many nonprofit leaders who don’t “have time” for professional development. “I have so much to do I don’t have any time for myself.” One of the interesting things about self-talk: what we say over and over, especially...
Now That person you’ve been scared of asking to make a specific contribution to your nonprofit? Ask her now. That note of appreciation to your board member that you’ve been putting off? Write it now. That staff member that just did something that...
