Fundraiser Education

The virtual Nonprofit Marketing Summit is launching into year-end with its fifth and largest summit yet.

Today, there are so many more ways to engage with your donors in all channels & media that you have more opportunities to practice.

Do you consider yourself a thought leader? Perhaps you shouldn’t, and here’s why.

As I was beginning to build my library on fundraising, I knew I had to obtain the book, “Henry Rosso’s Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising.” Can you imagine my joy and excitement when it was announced that Wiley Publishing had published the fifth edition of “Achieving Excellence in Fundraising”?

What makes an expert fundraiser? Psychologist K. Anders Ericsson coined the phrase “deliberate practice” to explain how people acquired expertise, and while there’s nuance in today’s science of expertise, the most inspirational takeaway from Ericsson’s work is that experts are made, not born. 

Your own self-care affects you, your team and organizational outcomes. It affects your ability to have meaningful relationships with a variety of constituencies.

I was there to see a special long-time donor of The Salvation Army Indiana Division receive the Outstanding Philanthropist award. The recipient is 105-year-old Laura Lewis.

Of those who fundraise off of the side of their desk, the vast majority do not like fundraising. I repeat — they do not like fundraising. They know the need to fundraise, but I’ve heard many of them use the term “necessary evil” to describe fundraising. Yes, it’s the “F” word of the nonprofit sector.

NonProfit POWER returns to provide qualified nonprofit leaders the insight and tools they need to make better decisions and investments for their organizations. NonProfit PRO, the go-to resource for nonprofit management and strategy, will host this invitation-only, hosted summit at the Notary Hotel Dec. 6 and 7 in Philadelphia.

The Lilly School of Philanthropy, which provides world class education in my backyard, continually plans for the future of philanthropy. This school, along with others across the country, are continually striving with respect to philanthropy, to advance knowledge.