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Unconventional Fundraising & Partnerships for Your Nonprofit

Years ago, I found myself sitting around a giant speaker waiting for a conference call to start, and getting ready to hear a big...

5 Steps to Getting a 100% Donor Retention Rate for Your Nonprofit

Have you dared look at your final end of year numbers yet? Did you look at them through your hands with only one eyeball peaking out like...

5 Must-Have Free Marketing Tools for Nonprofits

As a nonprofit organization, it can be tempting to focus all of your resources on the work that you do, rather than on promoting your...

Things to Ask Your Donors for Your End of Year Giving Campaign - PART 2

Time to scramble and get those gifts! The countdown is ON, and if you are as big of a procrastinator as I am, or you seem to look at the...

Things to Ask Your Donors for Your End of Year Giving Campaign - PART 1

I love the holiday season. I mean besides the stress over a rapidly impeding end of year, finances going off the rail, and an endless...

Hey Nonprofits! Pick up the Damn Phone!

No one asked me for money last week. It was curious to me that for all the momentum our nonprofit sector has been building, all the hype...

3 Unique Ways to Ramp Up Your Gratitude Game

Ok, we all get it. You have to say thank you for gifts. Your parents and teachers probably drilled that into you as a child, or somebody...

3…2…1…LAUNCH!

I’ve been involved in the nonprofit community as a leader and as a fundraisers for nearly 20 years. And in that time talking with other...

4 Friendraising Events to Plan for 2023

Did you know that you can throw an event for your nonprofit that has NOTHING to do with asking for money…but everything to do with...

5 Things the BEST Nonprofits Do to Raise Money

This week, we celebrated 5 years in business at Do Good Better Consulting! And besides taking a bit of time to pick up cupcakes &...

It’s Dangerous to Fundraise Alone…Take This!

Listen. I hate to be the one to remind you – but there are 121 days left in the 2022. 4 months. I’m not sure the musical RENT had a song...

Top 5 Ways to Improve Your Nonprofit's Content…Without Going Insane!

I had the best of plans to be super productive and write a super long blog about being a superhero content creator for nonprofits way...

Nonprofit Networking No-No’s

As a nonprofit leader – we have to “People” all the time. Like, all the time. And it’s exhausting. Smiling on the phone while you talk...

Stop Asking for Money! Do This Instead!

A few weeks ago, my nephew thought it would be funny to pick up a garter snake and chase me around the yard threatening to throw it at...

Do Businesses Care About Your Nonprofit?

You love your nonprofit. Like, a lot. But businesses don’t. At all. Or at least it feels that way, right? Attracting the eyes and ears of...