You do good work. You help the illiterate read. You place paintbrushes in frail seniors’ hands. You organize programs to solve pressing public problems. You do a myriad of things to make lives better. Despite its joys, not-for-profit work is hard, and it’s not for wimps.
Your organization delivers solutions to our most difficult challenges. You improve lives. You solve challenges. You offer hope and optimism in a world of gloomy headlines. Despite your high value, achieving results isn’t easy. To create these impacts, you align your board, staff, donors, and others to advance toward your vision.
Whether it’s a seminar, workshop, or keynote, Karen helps you to create events that exceed your guest’s expectations. Karen delivers customized, interactive, and practical presentations leaving your guests energized and ready to implement what they’ve learned.
Everyone has a role in bringing revenue and resources to your organization. Let’s Raise Nonprofit Millions Together offers you a framework to inspire your board members, staff, and others who champion your not-for-profit to discover they can fundraise and actually enjoy it. Rally your team to raise remarkable revenue together.
Karen delivers customized, interactive, and practical presentations leaving your guests energized and ready to implement what they’ve learned. Here’s a behind the scenes look at a recent session, Stop Leaving Sponsorship Dollars on the Table with the St Petersburg Art Alliance.
The session was designed to help leaders bump up their sponsorship revenue. Listen to John Collins, Executive Director, as he talks about this sell-out event. Board member Susie Betzer called it, an “excellent presentation.” She was “amazed at the value of the fast-paced brainstorming groups.”
Fundraising success is an art and a science. Fortunately, when you get the science right, you create lots of room to become skillful at the art. Both launch you to maximize your fundraising dollars. Below, you’ll read about one fundraising success drivers. A driver, part of the science of fundraising, is a habitual activity[…]
The Forging Foundation Executive Director Jim Warren and its consultant Karen Eber Davis of Karen Eber Davis Consulting were recognized and selected to co-present at the prestigious Association Foundation Group’s (AFG) Virtual Edge Conference (Aug 26th—Sept 17th) on the topic ‘The Case of the One-Size-Fits-All-Contributions Request: How to Raise More Money by Offering Distinct Value[…]
Karen’s Nonprofit CEO Conversations are a rare, free interactive opportunity to explore high-level thinking with nonprofit executives about obtaining corporate support now. What’s Up with Corporate Support Now? October 29, 2020 Enter Covid 19 The pandemic ended—at least for now—the sector’s traditional corporate sponsorship revenue. Without large events, nonprofits can’t make a case for corporate[…]
What are the three key places where you will get the most bang for your buck when you invest in your strategy? What happens when you fail to invest? How can too little investment impact your board thinking about their nonprofit service? This video explores these questions and will help you look professional when you[…]
False consensus: You look unprofessional when you announce that as you planned your strategy everyone agreed with everything. Instead of expecting consensus, plan to listen to and generate as many future options as possible and explore their benefits and risks of each together. Many nonprofits create strategies that don’t help them and make them look[…]
Fundraising success is an art and a science. Fortunately, when you get the science right, you create lots of room to grow skillful at the art and maximize your fundraising potential. Below, you’ll read about four of the seven drivers of fundraising success. A driver, part of the science of fundraising, is a habitual activity[…]
