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Everything You Need to Know to Master Monthly Giving

September 27, 2021

Book Review: Monthly Giving Made Easy by Erica Waasdorp I’ve been recruiting monthly donors for organizations for more than 30 years. I thought I was an old pro at it because I’ve found a whole lot of ways of telling…

The Sure Way to Raise More Money from Your Best Donors

August 9, 2021

Sean Triner

Fundraising

It takes money to make money. Easy to say, not always easy to do. But there’s one way where spending a bit more money yields immediate and often significant return: Create a bigger, better direct mail pack for your top…

The Fundraising Secret Ingredient You’ll Swear by for the Rest of Your Career

July 26, 2021

Jeff Brooks

Fundraising

My Mom had a secret. It was a magic ingredient she could sprinkle into just about anything she cooked, and it made the food better. More flavorful. Richer. Just yummier in an almost undefinable way. She didn’t want people to…

7 Boring Ways to Transform Your Fundraising

June 14, 2021

Julie Cooper

Fundraising

Fresh out of college in the mid-1990s, I took a traveling sales job. My responsibility was to sell as many industrial tools and supplies as possible. Yes, that’s just as exciting as it sounds. My liberal arts education hadn’t trained…

New Year’s Resolutions to Make 2021 Your Best Year Ever

January 4, 2021

Jeff Brooks

Fundraising

A great way to start the New Year is to think about the positive changes you want to make and put them in writing as Resolutions. Of course, you can do this any time you want, but there’s something about…

Boo! 6 Things that Should Scare Fundraisers on Halloween

October 26, 2020

Jeff Brooks

Fundraising

When Halloween rolls around each year, we see that interesting human impulse to scare ourselves — and others. So people dress up as zombies, monsters, and aliens. (Others dress as princesses or astronauts, which are probably not meant to be…

Fundraisers Gotta Keep on Truckin’

September 28, 2020

Jeff Brooks

Fundraising

Remember Keep on Truckin’? It’s a classic slogan and image from the counterculture, created in 1968 by cartoonist R. Crumb. (And if you aren’t humming the Grateful Dead classic “Truckin’,” you might need a little more music in your life!)…

Your Calendar for Successful Year-End Fundraising

August 31, 2020

Jeff Brooks

Fundraising

CLICK HERE to download this blog as a PDF: Your Calendar for Successful Year-End Fundraising. It’s time to get on top of your year-end fundraising. For many organizations, December is go big or go home time — the month that…

The Missing Ingredient That Might Be the Reason You and Your Colleagues Hate Your Job

August 17, 2020

Jeff Brooks

Workplace, Fundraising

I ask people all the time what they struggle with in fundraising. Distressingly often they tell me their biggest problem is their fundraising jobs. They love making the world a better place, but the job… it’s just not rewarding. A…

Is the Donor Fatigue Monster Hiding under Your Bed?

August 10, 2020

Jeff Brooks

Fundraising, Coronavirus

Most children go through a phase where they believe there’s a monster hiding under their bed. It lives only in their imagination, but it really terrifies them. Why do they do that? In all the history of the world, all…

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Everything You Need to Know to Master Monthly Giving

The Sure Way to Raise More Money from Your Best Donors

The Fundraising Secret Ingredient You’ll Swear by for the Rest of Your Career

7 Boring Ways to Transform Your Fundraising

New Year’s Resolutions to Make 2021 Your Best Year Ever

Boo! 6 Things that Should Scare Fundraisers on Halloween

Fundraisers Gotta Keep on Truckin’

Your Calendar for Successful Year-End Fundraising

The Missing Ingredient That Might Be the Reason You and Your Colleagues Hate Your Job

Is the Donor Fatigue Monster Hiding under Your Bed?

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