Arielle Randle knows a thing or two about communicating in and through a crisis. Like so many nonprofit leaders, she cut her teeth on crisis response communications and fundraising during the...
Creating the Perfect Donor Communication
We nonprofit marketers have sweated and tested to create the perfect donor communication. But it doesn't exist.Humans are so different in so many different ways that there is no perfect...
A Better Way to Fundraise
"I'm tired of chasing our donors for donations and feeling like all we ever do is ask, ask, ask.""Our donor retention rates are SO low. I hate that we spend...
YES! There IS a better way to fundraise
Hey friends!I’ve been talking a TON lately about creating a better way to fundraise. My team and I are on a mission to increase generosity and impact by creating more effective...
Increasing Mission Impact
This episode of The Rainmaker Fundraising Podcast is a little different, but no less insightful (I hope!).Instead of interviewing another leader in the nonprofit sector, I invited my friend Julie...
From Barely Surviving to Thriving with Rev. Jeremy Montgomery
This conversation with Rev. Jeremy Montgomery, MBA-MA, President/CEO at Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission in Philadelphia, PA, is a deep-dive into change leadership like you've never heard before! When he took the...
COVID’s impact on Food Bank Fundraising, with Matt Hackler
Matt Hackler is Vice President of Strategic Capacity Building with Feeding America. Like many of us, Matt says he "fell into" fundraising before joining Feeding America. In his current role,...
Nonprofit Email Strategy with John Walsh
John Walsh is one of the most innovative digital marketers in the nonprofit sector today. He currently leads email marketing at one of the world's largest Evangelical ministry organizations. In this...
I hope your direct mail program fails
Does that headline tick you off? Does it irritate you knowing how much budget is allocated to direct mail every year? Does this make you wonder how, as a direct...
If your fundraising agency does this, fire them.
Yesterday I was advising a friend who is Executive Director at an organization I'm very fond of. I was shocked at a recommendation she received from her fundraising agency. It...