Are You Nurturing the 4 Fundraising Babies?

So Elischer asked, “Are you brave enough to take risk?” He offered these tips for taking risks in your fundraising:

• Identify the risk and understand it.
• Decide which risks are natural to take.
• Align marketing and budget risk.
• Embed risk in all your decisions and processes.

More than ever, Elischer said fundraisers need to:

• Have strong belief
• Stand out
• Create pride, energy and commitment
• Drive vision
• Inspire enthusiasm
• Energize people to transcend the bottom line

Then he shared his secret formula for success in 2010 and beyond: natural talent + insanely hard work + risk management + luck = success. “Never forget luck,” Elischer said. “Luck hits all of us. It could be a one-off chance event. Stay in motion to put yourself in the way of opportunity. Create your own luck.”