Grab Your Partner!
The account executive continued on and on, even saying, "Let's just test it." In the end we finally said that "this" was an organizational decision and we'd have to just work hard to keep raising funds while we kept our core values intact.
How do you get that relationship with your agency to the point where it trusts that you know your organization and count on its fundraising expertise to help take the message you want to possible donors?
So, I'm a fundraiser having a mid-life crisis. And that's perfectly fine with me.
I am taking time to look around, lift my head and find REAL people who really want to change the world. And people smart enough to do it. Join me in this fun journey. I have no idea where we will end up - and that is the beauty of it. I'm nonprofit passionate, a hopeful world changer, and always ready to share what I know, learn what I don't, admit when I can't, and ask the hard questions.
While you're looking around for other areas of inspiration, check out The Moth Project at themoth.org (the podcasts are AMAZING), TED talks (doesn't matter which ones - find topics that interest you) and Volunteer Voices (again - love the podcast) written by volunteers from the Peace Corps. Don't see the immediate connection to being a better fundraiser? Just listen, you'll hear the message ...
