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 maximize your fundraising returns. Below, you’ll read about another fundraising success driver. A driver, part of the science of fundraising, is a habitual activity that creates a[…]
Are you ready to hire a development director? Are you worried about making the right choice? You’re not alone. Hiring the right development directors is fraught with challenges. Success requires effort in three areas, two you set up in advance, and the last involves hiring well. Watch this video to learn what you need to[…]
Listen to this video to solve your board member recruitment challenges AND to establish a simple but effective system to generate a pipeline of prospects for your nonprofit organization. Discover Karen’s PBM list. Chapters 00:00 It’s That Time of Year Again 00:19 Solving the Board Recruitment Challenge Now and Later 00:23 The Usual Suspects 00:43[…]
A client called me to partner with their organization to create a strategy. The underlying driver for the process was underfunding—as is often the case. Through-out the community listening phase, I frequently heard how previous funding efforts failed. While everyone desperately wanted to solve the challenge, they were fond of obsessing about what didn’t[…]
Karen’s Nonprofit CEO Conversations are a rare, free interactive opportunity to explore high-level thinking with nonprofit executives about solving the challenges you face now. How to Keep Your Nonprofit Staff Sane, In the Middle of a Pandemic, December 10, 2020 Welcome to the Pandemic. Some of us thought we’d be back at our office in[…]
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[…]
