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July 11, 2021

Say No to More Boring Nonprofit Strategic Planning!

New clients tell me they are frustrated and, frankly, bored with strategy work. The recommendations are generic. And, they finished the tasks within a year.[…]

June 21, 2021

How Can Prospect Research Help You?

Here are answers to your CEO questions about investing in prospect research. Should your nonprofit invest in prospect research? Your development staff asked for it.[…]

June 2, 2021

Your Donors, Sponsors, and Funders: Can You Keep Them or Get Them Back?

The most common questions my clients are asking now involve former and current donors, sponsors, and funders. They want to know: If their new donors,[…]

May 31, 2021

Regain Your Lapsed and Waffling Sponsors

How can you get your lapsed nonprofit sponsors back? Keep your waffling ones? And, not get here again? Your sponsors are: • Not returning your[…]

May 24, 2021

Do You Have a Culture of Philanthropy? 4 Quick Tests

You seek a culture of philanthropy, but do you have one? Yes, you want more donors and reoccurring contributions to bursts and boom cycles. You[…]

April 26, 2021

Create a Remarkable CEO-Development Director Relationship

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,[…]

April 26, 2021

How to Hire Exceptional Development Staff

Don’t you hate it when you make a mistake, and it gets covered in the media? This may happen to you if you’re hiring a[…]

April 19, 2021

3 Common and Dangerous Development Myths

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[…]

March 22, 2021

Where Are Your Major Gifts? Introducing Karen’s Major Gift Finder

Many nonprofits have excellent major gift opportunities, but they overlook them. Major gifts are critical to successful nonprofits. Over 54 percent of nonprofit leaders say[…]

March 1, 2021

Crafting a Kick-Ass Board Agenda

How often do your board members leave your meeting, declaring that it was the best meeting they had all month? Did you know that a[…]

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