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 | 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...
by Tony Poderis | Jun 1, 1999 | Development Team |
This is the era of high-tech delivery of information in an instant. The Internet is accessible from any telephone line, and lap-top computers let us take the facts and figures—all the facts and figures—to wherever they’re needed. Development professionals must...
by Tony Poderis | Apr 1, 1999 | Development Team |
To consult, or not to consult—that is the question. Or at least it would be if Hamlet were to ask it. Hamlet’s “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” make me think of fund-raising goals too great and resources to meet them too few. His “sea...
by Tony Poderis | Jan 1, 1998 | Development Team, Fundraising Policies & Practices |
Never Hire Someone To Do What Is Their Responsibility Fund-Raising Consultants Can Be A Godsend. They Can Also Be An Ethical, Financial And Donor Relations Disaster For organizations with an inexperienced, small, or nonexistent development staff, consultants can do...