Get to Know the Planned Giving Design Center
It’s well-known among planned giving professionals that the free-to-use Planned Giving Design Center (PGDC) is a first-stop resource to learn [...]
80 Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising
I get a lot of nonprofit email messages through subscribing to lists, working with lots of organizations, and being a [...]
Engage Lapsed Donors as Volunteers
As we wind down the year 2011, we reflect on a year of challenges, both with the economy and its [...]
Mission Statements That Matter
Why is our industry plagued with so many terrible mission statements? You know the ones…they include meaningless words like “outreach” or [...]
The Dreaded 6/30 Fiscal Year End
Sometimes fundraising can seem like one of nature's cruel jokes. [...]
Scary Supporter Horror Stories
People share their nightmares with me. Well, ok – maybe that’s overstating it. They vent. And it freaks me out. [...]
Revolutionize Your Website with the Facebook Like Button
Over the past few months you’ve probably noticed the Facebook like button on at least a few of the websites [...]
5 Tips for Reconnecting with Donors
While writing about multi-channel engagement, I couldn’t help but to think that each lesson learned applied mainly to supporters who [...]
Is all support created equal?
Is all support created equal? [...]
Creating a Social Networking Strategy
The first place to start is a proven and solid framework for your strategy. That bad news is that most [...]
