Building a Culture of Philanthropy
5. Spend one-on-one time with board members getting to know them individually.
6. At every staff and board meeting, share your latest "story," whether it's about one of your agency's clients, a donor or even a recent visitor to your organization. Encourage staff members to share their stories as well.
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.