Your Team’s Success Begins with Good Goal Setting
Good goals provide an agreed-upon structure or context within which progress can be evaluated. Without this context, it's hard to assess progress and growth.
New Year, New Web Design Trends
Observations about how web design has evolved over the last decade to be flatter, bigger and simpler, all making it easier to translate into a mobile experience.
The Changing Face of School Funding
The world of K-12 education is in great flux right now. Thousands of independent schools are struggling with tuition levels [...]
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 [...]
Apples, Honey, and End of Year Fundraising
Break out the Manischewitz …. or apples and honey, it’s time to ring in the new year! I know what [...]
Keys to Following Up with Disaster Response Donors
I’ve been following the fundraising response to Japan very closely and so I was very pleased to be able to sit down with Katie Beth DeSchepper of StrategicOne earlier today. Convio acquired StrategicOne earlier this year, and they have done significant analytics on disaster donations with some hefty data sets to look at, so Katie Beth had some excellent suggestions. [...]
It Takes Two to Table
Don’t tell anyone, but there was a time in my life when I didn’t know what “tabling” was. I was [...]
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? [...]
