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.”
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[…]
You Said Strategy, Is That What You Really Meant? If you find strategy a bit hard to grasp, you’re not alone. Here’s an overview of nonprofit strategy. What is a Nonprofit Strategic Plan? Your nonprofit strategy is your customized-designed master plan to win more mission, more supporters, and more money. Successful nonprofit strategies: 1) Win They explain[…]
Mistake #5 When you provide too few options to solve your critical challenge, you lose. Not only do you miss great opportunities, but you also look unprofessional. Over time, when you appear unprofessional, major funders, donors, and peers desert you. Find out how to avoid the common error of exploring too few options in your[…]
Strategies look unprofessional when they fail to respond to the nonprofits’ number one challenge. To generate a professional strategy, you must know if your key roadblock and solve it. Simple, you say, its money. Probably not. Watch the video to discover more about this common strategy mistake that makes your nonprofit look unprofessional. Nonprofit organizations[…]
This conversation is a rare, free interactive opportunity to explore high-level thinking with other nonprofit executives about galas. Nonprofits have a love-hate relationship with their large special events. We love the revenue. Receipts fund must-have operating expenses that nobody wants to buy. When done well, these events deliver donors fun, new supporters, sponsorship opportunities, plus[…]
