Fundraiser Education
February 26, 2018 at 12:05 pm
I was invited to speak at the 2018 IEDC Leadership Summit on mindfulness as a professional development topic. Instead of speaking to how to implement mindfulness personally, I took it in a different direction. How can mindfulness, as a leader, help a group accomplish their purpose?...
February 23, 2018 at 9:44 am
In honor of this blog post, I ate a bowl of Frosted Flakes for breakfast today. I saw Tony the Tiger on the cereal cover, and all I could think of was his catchphrase, “They’re grrrrreat!” In any area of expertise, no one should automatically settle to be less than they can be...
February 19, 2018 at 12:34 pm
A few years back, we started a tradition of kicking each new year off by informing you and, hopefully, inspiring you about the top trends in the sector. And this year is no different. The new administration brought many changes to our sector in 2017 and before the year ended, the new tax law took effect, which means no one really knows what is in store for 2018...
February 16, 2018 at 11:54 am
Welcome back to #NPPTrendingNow, a weekly video series where NonProfit PRO Editor-in-Chief Nhu Te breaks down the top three coveted stories of the week. Here's what we've got going on for you this week: best practices for better donor engagement, 40 nonprofit trends for 2018 and the issue of failing nonprofits...
February 16, 2018 at 11:33 am
How often do you have a bad day? At times, I must say I have bad days. I am human and strive for all days to be wonderful, but many do not turn out the way you want them to be through no fault of your own...
February 13, 2018 at 12:20 pm
Cultivating curiosity is essential in fundraising, yet it is an underutilized approach and hardly ever discussed within our profession. Some people think it’s rude to ask too many questions—I get that; but surely we fundraisers should be asking more questions than we do...
February 12, 2018 at 12:12 pm
The ongoing quest for funding can often feel like navigating a psychological minefield of cultural complexities and politics. Indeed, there were times I felt completely in the dark during the first few years that I was trying to get our ocean nonprofit Beneath the Waves off the ground and evolve from a small, grassroots organization.…
February 12, 2018 at 12:09 pm
It’s a brand new year and with all the changes that have taken place in 2017, a good question circling the nonprofit space right now is what’s happening in our sector—or what’s to come in 2018? We covered this extensively, but before we said goodbye to 2017, something big happened in the U.S., which has serious implications for our sector: the passing of the new tax bill. So it’s more pertinent than ever for nonprofits to be prepared for what lies ahead...
February 9, 2018 at 1:30 pm
Several years ago, I left a hospital position in another state to come back “home” to Indiana. I decided, at the encouragement of a colleague, to create my own consulting firm, which I still have today. My first assignment with this firm was to take on a six-month assignment as an interim executive director of a dying nonprofit...
February 8, 2018 at 12:02 pm
It’s a brand new year—a new year of possibilities, opportunities and experiences. As each year comes and goes, it never ceases to amaze me how I continue to learn and grow professionally, as well as personally. And the same could be said about you and your communities...
