Fundraising's freshest thinkers take on the sector's toughest topics

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

JJ: Part of transparency, too, is allowing the donors to have a dialogue with you. Sometimes you’ll go on a website and it’s easy to give, but it’s not easy to have a dialogue and communicate and ask a question or to find out who to talk with.

Round 3: The Board
JJ: It’s been inevitable for I don’t know how many years that every time we work with a client, no matter what the project or what the scope is, that somehow the board becomes the No. 1 either opportunity or challenge. Usually, about a week or two into working with the CEO, either they’re bragging about the board or that door closes slowly and their eyes roll back and they start talking about their job
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