Jul
10
2020
Top Articles to Date
Everybody loves summer. It is a time to relax, spending time with the family, and decompress. Wait…. Haven’t I just been spending the last 3 full...
staff
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...
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...
Mar
06
2020
Job Interview Homework Assignments
Job Interviews are hugely stressful events — both for the interviewee and the interviewer. This is probably one of my least favorite tasks as a manager...
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
07
2020
Job vs Vocation
As many of you who have been reading my blog, I have been writing lately about Lynne Wester‘s book, T-Rexes and Kangaroos and the lessons contained...
Mar
22
2019
Who should be Driving Fundraising?
I have stated many times before that I am a huge fan of Jason Lewis. He is really making some of us stop and think about how...
Feb
22
2019
Life Expectancy of Your Staff
The world has changed a lot over the last few decades (duh). The notion of somebody coming to work for an organization, putting in their 30...
Feb
08
2019
Using program Staff as Expert Witnesses
I have maintained that fundraising is a team sport — it involves many different people (if done correctly). Your program delivery staff are integral to a...
HR / Leadership
Jan
18
2019
Pick up the Phone and MAKE THE CALL
So much has changed in the almost 25-years since I entered this profession. My first campaign had pledge forms filed on index cards and we were...