by Marcus Haile | Sep 6, 2016 | Campaign Organization & Management, Campaign Planning, Development Team |
How and what development professionals are held accountable for are two of the most important questions nonprofit organizations and their fundraisers face. Accountability is a necessary tool for managing staff and fundraising efforts, but it is only as good as the...
by David Patterson | Sep 16, 2015 | Small Gifts Campaigns, Social Media & eFundraising |
Website pages are an important part of any fundraising campaign. When the fundraising effort is made online only, the online campaign landing page (OCLP) can be the difference maker. It can speed or impede the giving process. As things stand now all online fundraising...
by Tony Poderis | Jun 16, 2014 | Campaign Planning |
As I was in the midst of writing this article, my wife entered the room modeling a dress she thought would be perfect for an upcoming special event. She asked my opinion. I looked her up and down, examined the garment, and then suggested that it might be a bit too...
by Tony Poderis | Mar 10, 2014 | Campaign Planning, Fundraising Policies & Practices |
In my hands is a slick, well done brochure for a capital campaign. The nonprofit organization that has produced it wants to build a new $6.5 million facility. Dates are given for ground breaking, commencement of construction, building completion, and dedication of the...
by Tony Poderis | Apr 13, 2011 | Campaign Organization & Management |
How do you keep a fund-raising campaign on track? By being well organized, constantly monitoring progress, and informing all campaign participants of that progress. The very reason for the pyramidal structure of a campaign committee is to simplify management. In the...
by David Patterson | Feb 24, 2011 | Small Gifts Campaigns, Social Media & eFundraising |
How the Smallest of Gifts Combined with the Impulse to Give Can Yield Real Results Nobel-Peace-Prize-winner Muhammad Yunnus founder of the Grameen Bank Micro-giving is most often thought of as the charitable donation of small increments of money from individual donors...
