Jun
19
2020
Do you need a Professional? Anybody can Fundraise — NOT!!
I have often written about the fact that fundraising isn’t rocket science. I would like to take the opportunity to use this article to clarify that...
leadership
Jun
12
2020
The Best Laid Plan
I wrote a post about a month ago speaking of the need to pivot when it comes to your plan in the Time of COVID. I...
May
08
2020
Leadership Lessons Learned
There are many times that I wish that someone told me which pitfalls to avoid when you are a leader. Or which ladders to climb. I...
May
01
2020
Take Control of your Plan
In these unprecedented times, it is really important to have a plan. Realize that your plan may go to pieces before it gets executed, but have...
Apr
03
2020
Find the Helpers
As I said in last week’s post, these are unprecedented times. With these times of economic uncertainty, health uncertainty, and psychological uncertainty, one of the only...
Mar
20
2020
Covid-19 & Fundraising
Never in my life have I ever seen a situation as we find ourselves in right now. Admittedly, I was less than a stellar student at...
Feb
28
2020
Leadership or Management
In my last (I promise) of the articles espousing the merits of Lynne Wester‘s book, T-Rexes and Kangaroos, there is the notion of leadership as compared...
Feb
14
2020
Enhancing your Strength
In the last of the blogs praising Lynne Wester‘s T-Rexes and Kangaroos, I wanted to mention a great chapter, written by Debbie Meyers. Meyers speaks of...
Mar
02
2018
Leadership sets the pace
I have written in previous posts about the board and fundraising. I would like to extend that thought to the senior leadership of any charitable organization....
Feb
23
2018
Questioning the Status Quo
I am always questioning the status quo. Even as a child, my parents used to get so frustrated with me because I questioned everything. Ad nauseum. Now,...