by Tony Poderis | Jan 10, 2005 | Development Team, Fundraising Policies & Practices |
Paying For Your Own Keep Too often, especially in smaller non-profit organizations, staff development officers are forced into a deplorable position that belittles them and damages the organization. They are charged with personally raising their own salaries. These...
by Tony Poderis | Sep 1, 2004 | Development Team, Trustees & Volunteers |
The board of trustees must be the lifeblood of a non-profit organization’s fund-raising and development activities. They are the leaders who approve program initiatives developed from the organization’s long-range strategic plan. They authorize the...
by Tony Poderis | Sep 23, 2003 | Development Team, Fundraising Policies & Practices |
In a nonprofit organization, no single internal relationship is more important than that between the executive director and development director. One carries the responsibility of leading the organization to the efficient execution of its mission, and the other...
by Tony Poderis | Dec 20, 2002 | Annual Campaigns, Campaign Planning, Development Team |
The following example of an annual fund development agreement between a non-profit organization and a fund-raising consultant is suggested as a guideline for: Organizations having little or no experience in drafting such documents. Experienced development...
by Tony Poderis | Apr 1, 2002 | Development Team |
Unrealistic Expectations, Pay Practices That Grantors Often See As Tainting The Funding Process, And Poor Planning And Follow Through, Can Doom The Best To Failure Some of the most heated discussion in the nonprofit world centers on grant writing. Why? Because so much...
by Tony Poderis | Sep 1, 1999 | Development Team, Trustees & Volunteers |
Volunteers are the lifeblood of a development operation, and trustees are the most important volunteers of all. The trustees approve an organization’s budget and they must accept personal responsibility for raising called-for contributed income. They are...