Leader: Guard your tongue. It might feel good to yell at someone once in a while. It might feel good to engage in gossip or to verbally take down that...
Nonprofits: Understand Your Customer
I posted the following statement on LinkedIn and it got a TON of feedback. A lot of that feedback was negative, with people telling me that my idea was entirely...
Your Business Rules are Hurting Your Fundraising
https://youtu.be/2bfJx3F5IEc There are so many fantastic and talented fundraisers in our nonprofit sector. What frustrates so many of them is that organizations often have outdated budgeting processes and business rules...
Know Your Calling. And Do It.
Tracy Thomas is a rabblerouser. A change leader. A force. She's also a loving mom, a caring wife, and a committed believer. Tracy and I sat down to have a...
Nonprofit success requires a focus on high value donor audiences
https://youtu.be/MivuqzzLd_AThe data is clear. Lower dollar charitable donors are giving less, and giving less frequently today than anytime in the last decade. However, charitable revenues have remained flat or slightly...
Why Soliciting Asset-based Gifts is Essential to your Nonprofit’s Success
I originally published this episode as an article over at DickersonBakker. Hope you enjoy the audio version as well! - AndrewAccording to Pew Charitable Trust, the aggregate wealth of middle-income Americans...
Proven, effective, repeatable ways to improve donor retention
Fundraising pro tip: If you're searching for "innovative/outside-the-box" ways to increase donor retention and engagement, STOP. In our constant search for new and different (our brains are wired to want...
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...
2023 Fundraising Trends & Predictions
Dani Lockard is Sales Manager at Funraise, one of the leading technology platforms designed (by people working inside a nonprofit) to help nonprofits raise more money online. Just before the end...