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.
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.
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.”
A 2020 Candid analysis predicts that between 3 and 38 percent of nonprofits will be pandemic victims—and they studied organizations with revenues greater than $50,000 per year. The stakes for developing nonprofit revenue are unlikely to be this high again in our careers. To lead your nonprofit, read these ten tips based on[…]
In a quiet corner in a city’s nicest restaurant, a couple starts to decline a naming opportunity. When the new CEO realizes what is happening, he blurts into the suddenly silent room, “You’re not going to fund it?!” The Chief of Development (COD) kicks him under the table. Despite this memorable start, over time, this[…]
Don’t you hate it when you make a mistake, and it gets covered in the local media? This may happen to you if you’re hiring a new development staff member, just as people are getting used to the last one. Hiring development staff that doesn’t work out is one of the most expensive and public[…]
Did you know that for every year that a development director stays on their job they bring in 6.5 major gifts? And, that one in four are let go for poor performance? What can you do to make to keep your development director? Know and eradicate these myths from your nonprofit ASAP. Chapters 00:00[…]
They are universally popular, but does seeking grants actually get in the way of creating financial stability at your nonprofit? For almost all nonprofits, the answer at some time is yes. Did you know that grants from foundations and other competitive grant sources only equal about 2-4 of the nonprofit sector’s income? Watch this video[…]
Obtaining the revenue your nonprofit was tough “in the old days” (like in 2019) when some 50 percent of nonprofits ended the year in the red. That was then. Now, it’s tougher. A 2020 Candid analysis predicted that between 3 and 38 percent of nonprofits will be pandemic victims—and data is based on organizations with[…]
