During a recent coaching call, my client asked me to walk her step-by-step through an upcoming donor meeting. I love doing this! We established her top goal for the dinner, talked about the environment, and scripted a couple questions for her to ask as the meal...
The debt ceiling debate has been dragging out for months here in the USA. Whether right or not, it’s got lots of Americans thinking of the credit limit on their credit cards and how close so many of us are to them. This leads to a focus on scarcity and lack and...
As kids, most of us were trained to say “thank you.” Some of us even had parents that required us to write “thank you” notes to relatives that gave us gifts. So why don’t we say “thank you” to our donors? The very people that...
Within the last couple weeks, there was an article about another nonprofit closing. Reading the article, I saw an incredibly common fundraising myth perpetuated. The myth sounds goes something like this: if we only had more businesses and foundation grants, then our...
This was the It Could Happen to You episode of Oprah’s The Big Give! I suspect, most viewers thought it’d be incredibly easy to give away $100,000 in 24 hours, even with the quirky restrictions. But it’s not as easy as it seems! First I want to...
