So ... You're a Fundraiser!

15. Ask your volunteers for donations.

Have you mastered fundraising?
I was recently reading a book called “Mastery” by Robert Greene, and it struck me that it could be applied to fundraising. How do you know you’ve mastered fundraising? Well, you never really know. There’s always something more to learn. Maybe you’ve done grants your whole life and you don’t know about appeal letters. Or you’ve been in a big shop and only done planned giving, or you’ve been in a small shop and had to do a little appeal letter, a little grantwriting but then never got to learn how to do a capital campaign. There are so many holes in our knowledge. We have to do better. I know, it’s worked so far, but it hasn’t worked as well as we’d like it to.