by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 12, 2017 | 1. Research, 2. Engage, 3. Ask, 4. Love (Stewardship), Board Members, Fundraising Secrets
I've been seeing a disturbing trend of late: a sharp rise in what I call are BFFs: blunt force fundraisers. Nonprofit leaders willfully skipping planning to jump straight to asking.As the author of Ask Without Fear!®, you know I am an advocate for asking. But the...
by Marc A. Pitman | Jan 10, 2017 | 1. Research, 2. Engage, 3. Ask, 4. Love (Stewardship)
Whether your fiscal year starts now or is only part of the way through, January is a good time to evaluate your fundraising progress.To help you're planning, here's an email I sent our Fundraising Kick subscribers yesterday.Good morning, Kickers!Listening to a...
by Jeff Gordy | Oct 27, 2016 | 4. Love (Stewardship), Guest Posts
To successfully retain donors, nonprofits need to invest time into cultivating and maintaining long-lasting relationships, from the first donation onward.With a concrete donor stewardship plan in place, donors will feel more valued and invested in your nonprofit.While...
by Marc A. Pitman | Jun 17, 2016 | 2. Engage, 3. Ask, 4. Love (Stewardship)
I just sent this out to everyone getting weekly #FollowUpFriday email reminders:It's #FollowUpFriday!It's Follow Up Friday! Over on the http://followupfriday.org/ page, D.C. Dreger quoted a John Grisham character calling today "fish Friday." D.C. says, "These are...
by Marc A. Pitman | Mar 22, 2016 | 2. Engage, 3. Ask, 4. Love (Stewardship), Board Members, Fundraising Secrets
I've been a leadership guy a lot longer than I've been a fundraising coach. In fact, one of the things I love about nonprofit fundraising is that fundraising impacts all areas of leadership: mission, vision, values, staff recruitment and retention, communicating...
by Marc A. Pitman | Jan 29, 2016 | 1. Research, 2. Engage, 3. Ask, 4. Love (Stewardship)
We live in the best time to fundraise! No longer are we at the mercy of the latest anecdote. Now we have a growing body of solid research into how to best help donors to invest in what matters to them most!Take this as an example: for over a year, the folks at Rogare,...
