This week I was surprised to talk to one of my friends who had been raising funds in the not-for-profit industry for more than a decade. To my dismay he had never heard of a term that I assumed every person in the fundraising industry was very familiar with: CTAD....
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Do You Want Your Donors To Keep Giving? —————– READ THIS…
By Gail Perry www.GailPerry.com Everybody’s losing their donors left and right. Are you holding on to your donors? Or are they drifting away never to be seen again? Across the board in the fundraising business, the probability that a donor will make a second gift...
Don’t waste a good crisis: tough fundraising requires action!
the words of Rob Emanual, President Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff, who told a reporter, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste“. This is the advice I give to charitable fundraisers staring at a service crisis, summer slump in revenue or budget cuts. Crisis can be an opportunity for your organization if you take decisive steps.
Holiday Times are Critical to Development
GET RID OF THE SUGAR PLUM VISIONS... I know many professionals in the development industry that literally take the last six weeks of the year off. They move into autopilot mode. They get off the road and nestle snug in the offices (and beds), with visions of...