Staying Focused in … Oh Look, a Unicorn!
Clearly you won’t be focused when you’re constantly chasing the next great idea. When you’re forever implementing the next thing that someone mentioned in a Twitter chat, or following up on that suggestion from a board member, or chasing after new donors while current donors are neglected … you’ll continue to feel like a hamster on a wheel.
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.