by Tony Poderis | May 24, 2005 | Development Team, Fundraising Policies & Practices |
(It Makes for a More Perfect Fund-raising World) Introduction The fund-raising “left hand” not knowing what the “right hand” is doing when it comes to who is asking whom for how much, for which purpose, and when, has always been a common...
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 Joyce Braun Poderis | Jan 12, 2004 | Community & Communications |
If a nonprofit organization wants to maximize its contributed income it needs a coherent, executable development plan, and that plan must have a viable communications strategy. What we’ll be talking about here is not an organization’s overall...
by Tony Poderis | Dec 16, 2003 | Fundraising Readiness |
When it comes to fund-raising, there are truths and myths. The truths illuminate the path to success. The myths speak with the dark voice of “conventional wisdom” of what can’t be done and won’t work. Throughout my career I have had to overcome...