Fundraising 4/5

Creatively Connecting With Donors When They Are Busy

School is ending, and the chaos of summer solicitation is just beginning. What on earth do we do as fundraisers? My little girl is...

Fundraising With the "R" Word

Here's a hot tip for you: Don't look at your 401k today. Oh, and your crypto wallet? I might avoid that too. Considering the uncertainty...

It's OK. You Freaking Got This!

Ever had one of those weeks where you blink, and it’s nearly gone!? Then you look at your to-do list and it hasn’t reduced a FRACTION of...

Do You Feel Guilty Raising Money?

I had a chat with a client this week about feeling guilty raising a significant amount of money from a single donor - as they thought...

Are You Begging and Bargaining with Donors?

I had a proposal rejected by a potential client this week. And even though that’s not an out-of-the-ordinary experience in the day in the...

Bracing for the Word "No"

This week I got adult braces. No, not the comically large metal ones that my kids have, but the invisible-should-be-a-lot-easier-to-deal-...

My Dad’s Cancer is Gone…Because of YOU.

In 3 hours, I get to hug my cancer free dad for the first time. This brutal journey he’s been on for the past few months is nearly coming...

Service Above Self Care

A lot of organizations have “Service Above Self” as one of their core values. Employees are seemingly expected to give more than they get...

Get Yourself a Morris Buttermaker

I’m sure you can tell by any photo you’ve seen of me, that clearly, I’m a finely tuned athlete. If you needed additional evidence, look...

Fashionable Donor Trends in 2022

Are you up to date on all the donor trends of 2022? Well, you're in luck! Because you sure will be...after reading this blog!

One Fundraising Event Does Not Mean Success OR Failure

Fundraising is hard enough without the added pressure of a singular event being a make-or-break moment in your nonprofit’s budgetary...

Other Nonprofits Are Better Than You

This week, I’ve had a LOT of conversations with nonprofit leaders about how they feel behind, overly stressed and have already lost their...

The Business of Doing Good

The Fargo/Moorhead community has always stepped up when needs arise. From filling sandbags to protect local neighborhoods during flood...

Uh Oh. Your Fundraising Staff Are Going to Quit.

Hold on to your butts nonprofits – because the “Great Resignation” of 2021 seems to be just the tip of the iceberg, and I don’t think our...

Revenge of the Data Nerds!

For all you data geeks out there – we have a first peek at what the third quarter of giving looked like, and it is a mixed bag of good,...