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Is It Time to Trash Your Fundraising Plan?

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One of the things I love about summer – aside from the obvious loves like swimming, family trips and watermelon – is that the slower pace allows time to take a step back and find a better way forward. For nonprofit leaders, summer is a great time to take a hard look at how you bring money […]

Why Do Nonprofit Leaders Get in Their Own Way?

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Can we talk about crazy for a minute? I’ve recently witnessed some behavior from nonprofit leaders that made my jaw drop: A board chairman convinced the rest of his board to turn away a donor who wanted to give the nonprofit a significant amount of money to fund organizational capacity (strategic planning, coaching, fundraising training) […]

Financing Not Fundraising: Stop Apologizing for Needing Money

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It becomes increasingly obvious to me that the nonprofit sector suffers from a lack of confidence. Centuries of being sidelined as “charities” while the real work of the world (business) took center stage has made the nonprofit sector continually apologize for the work they do and how they do it. Nowhere is this more true […]

New Financing Not Fundraising, Vol. 3 E-book

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I am delighted to announce today’s release of the newest volume in the Financing Not Fundraising e-book series, Financing Not Fundraising, vol. 3. The idea behind Financing Not Fundraising is that the traditional way nonprofit leaders, boards and donors have approached funding the work of nonprofits doesn’t work anymore. Traditional nonprofit fundraising forces nonprofits to […]