10 Foolproof Fundraising Tactics
8. Retain staff
Retaining staff is a key component of a successful fundraising office. I've worked with nonprofit organizations that have had — seriously — five development directors in three years! How can an organization have any kind of continuity with donors with that kind of record? Staff your organization with creative, quality individuals, and do your best to keep them. And if you're not sending your development staff to workshops, classes and seminars, you're doing your organization a grave disservice. Training enables and accelerates innovation. It's good for the employee and the employer.
Pamela Grow is the publisher of The Grow Report, the author of Simple Development Systems and the founder of Simple Development Systems: The Membership Program and Basics & More fundraising fundamentals e-courses. She has been helping small nonprofits raise dramatically more money for over 15 years, and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Fundraisers by Civil Society magazine, and one of the 40 Most Effective Fundraising Consultants by The Michael Chatman Giving Show.
