Here are two seemingly unrelated facts that if you can manage to tie together, you’ll immediately improve the way your organization performs. First, I can vividly remember a conversation my high school speech coach had with me well over 3 decades ago. And second, your organization has to produce more income from a smaller investment […]
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I don’t know about you but I am constantly jotting myself notes and marking quotes to use later. I’m better than I used to be, but occasionally I will find some words written in my notebook or in Evernote that are mysterious to me. It’s like someone slipped in and wrote me a note in
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Today’s thinking about nonprofits and their donors is influenced by Molly the barn owl. If you’ve missed out, Molly is a new mom owl living live on the web. Technically she’s in a webcam equipped nest box on a pole in San Marcos, California. Molly and McGee (her doting mate) are proud parents. At this
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Knowing what your donors want is more important than knowing what you want. If you are raising funds or leading a nonprofit organization, you better know what your donors want. Much of the time spent in planning communications, fundraising and marketing for nonprofits is spent ignoring what donors want. Understand, I’m not suggesting that you
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Seth Godin, the great the thinker/author/provocateur wrote today about modern factory. He’s written a series of posts the last few days that deal with working and the work place. You can see today’s post here. He uses one of our favorite I Love Lucy episodes as an illustration. We used the same clip on the
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Today it’s a “clean out the refrigerator” kind of post. Several things to put in front of you. Join in…you make us better by letting us know what you’re thinking. On generational stuff. The Pew Foundation has some fascinating information and a quiz. Click here to get the info. And click here to find out
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I’ll confess, I’m a worrier. I’m better than I used to be, but I still worry. I had a conversation recently with a really great leader who was talking about something they were worried about and I was amazed to find out: 1. They were a worrier. To me, they seemed far too cool, collected
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Depending on who you listen to, Facebook (FB) will either completely revolutionize your fundraising or it is a complete waste of everyone’s time. Most of us are in the “somewhere in between” camp. It makes sense that Facebook would help fundraising, but at this point there aren’t a lot of clear and clean examples of
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Many charities host annual event fundraisers — dinners, auctions, desserts, breakfasts, even a few murder mystery events (don’t even get me started about the murder mystery dinner I attended to benefit a domestic violence shelter). Before you go very far ask yourself a few questions: 1. What’s the goal? No fair having some vague goal
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Interestingly the last post I ran with contained a series of thoughts, okay rants, called “think this, not that” that didn’t provoke much in the way of discussion on the blog. But it did generate some back-channel discussions via email and phone. “Think bonding, not branding” started more than a few, “nice line, but what
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In no particular order, here’s my incomplete list of what we all need to be thinking about if we want to make things happen for nonprofits and ministries in this new decade of ours. Think bonding not branding. Think engagement not fundraising. Think experiences not events. Think reporters pursuing not public relations. Think connections not
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We spent some time last week with one of our favorite people. She’s brilliant, wise and a terrific nonprofit marketing strategist. The discussion turned to fundraising for Haiti. We’re all in the business, so the discussion went deep and to the details very quickly. One of the topics that we batted around was the phenomenon
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