Links to Blog Posts You Should Read!

Giving Through People … Not to People!
"We need to keep the mission at the center of the relationship. People are a vehicle through which we connect donors and prospects to our mission — having personal relationships with our prospects is not the goal. So how do we always make sure that we are clarifying our relationships with our donors?" Click here to read the full post.

Delighting Your Donors
"I don’t know how many times I’ve sat across the table of a development director and asked, 'How have you delighted your donors this week?', and all I get is a look of embarrassment on her face. These are the same people who are running around preaching that we need to be donor-focused, donor-centered, donor-you’re the center of my universe … yet, when it comes to actually putting that into practice, it falls to the wayside." Click here to read the full post.