There are dire warnings in the United States press about the huge drop in charitable giving coming in 2018. Even groups who should know better, like AFP – the Association of Fundraising Professionals, is saying the sky is falling. (Full disclosure: I am on the...
Fall fundraising is hard enough. But listening to NPR’s All Things Considered on my ride home this evening, I remembered how much more challenging political mailing will make your fundraising this fall. So I pulled to the side of the rode to record this...
Happy New (fiscal) Year! For many FundraisingCoach.com readers, today – July 1st – is the start of a brand new fiscal year. The amount raised starts at zero but the goals are set higher. As fundraisers, we rarely get thanked, and that’s fine. The...
For her weekly FundRaising Success Magazine post, Jo Black Sullivan asked a bunch of us fundraiser-folk what kept us awake at night. People like me, Roger Craver, Jeff Jowdy, and more. Here’s the video of all of us. It cut out the screen-printed bow tie on my...
June 30 is the end of the fiscal year for many nonprofits. Tomorrow, the bar gets set higher. But that’s tomorrow. Today, I just wanted to say ‘thank you” to all of you who raise money for nonprofit, community benefit organizations. Your work is...
