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5 Fundraising Mistakes We Make With Our Boards
Asking for Donations, Board Development, Motivating Board Members, Nonprofit LeadershipDo your nonprofit board members avoid fundraising?
If your board members back off when they should be pitching in, this may be why!
Don't make these mistakes that hurt, rather than help, our cause.
Mistake #1: Thinking that fundraising is…
Why Your Board Needs Term Limits
Board Development, Nonprofit LeadershipIs your board reluctant to enforce term limits?
If so, the board is in danger of becoming stale and set in its ways.
And when that happens, your entire organization may be at risk - sooner than you think.
This is a very, very dangerous place…
Why Did Doris Buffet Personally Answer This Fundraising Letter?
Asking for Donations, Marketing & CommunicationsYou won't believe it but my friend Jacqueline wrote a "cold" letter appealing to Doris Buffett - and Ms. Buffett actually responded with a PERSONAL phone call. And, ultimately she made a gift.
When Jacqueline told me about this, I didn't believe…
14 Easy Ways Board Members Can Raise Money
Annual Giving, Asking for Donations, Board Development, Board Members & FundraisingBoard members can be enthusiastic fundraisers if you make it easy for them.
Here are 14 examples of very specific natural, comfortable formats for asking.
It's so helpful to board members when we can show them easy ways to make the ask.
Offer…
Checklist for a Top-Level Board Governance Committee
Board Development, Motivating Board Members, Nonprofit Leadership
Who is looking out for the care and feeding of your board? You really, really need a Governance Committee to do this important work.
In fact, we can't think of anything MORE important.
Because if you want to have a high-performing board,…
26 Practices of High Performing Boards
Board Development, Nonprofit LeadershipSo many nonprofit boards are stuck in one way or another. Whether the nonprofit is large or small, I see so many of the same challenges with board governance.
I'm thinking a lot about boards this week, as I prepare for a big workshop on boards.…
4 Steps to a Transformational Gift
Capital Campaign, Major Gift FundraisingTransformational gifts are the most amazing gifts of all. They are largest and most significant gift an individual will ever make.
Isn't securing a transformational gift your ultimate dream?
These gifts bring funding that can completely transform…
Five Tips for Overcoming Fundraising Fears
Annual Giving, Inspiration, Motivating Board MembersOk, we've all been there...Fundraising fears.
You know what you need to be doing. . . but you just -- you just -- you just -- manage to find something else to focus on that's lots more interesting and certainly less dreadful.
There's that…
Show Me the Money: How to Move From Friendraising to Fundraising
Annual Giving, Asking for Donations, Friendmaking, Major Gift FundraisingIn my regular column I write for the Guidestar newsletter, a smart reader sent me the $64,000 question:
"All your talk about "friendraising" is great, but show me the money! My organization needs funding right now!"
You're exactly right to focus…
How to Enlist Your Dream Team Board
Board DevelopmentWouldn't you love to enlist the right team of people who can catapult your organization to a whole new level?
Yes, that's the Holy Grail for lots of nonprofits. Getting the boards we need and deserve. Getting the leadership, the…
3 Tips for Managing “Up:” How to Get Your Board To Do What You Need Them To Do
Board Development, Nonprofit LeadershipManaging your board is one of the greatest challenges for every nonprofit leader. And talk about a pain point!
Lots of my nonprofit friends are wildly frustrated by their relationship with their board members: "Tell me what to do with…
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