by Tony Poderis | Sep 27, 2007 | Funding Sources & Donors, Fundraising Policies & Practices |
Pro Bono: “Especially for the Public Good” (Merriam-Webster) The dictionary definition of pro bono fits well with non-profit organizations, which themselves are also for “the public good,” according to the IRS description of how they must be...
by Tony Poderis | May 11, 2007 | Fundraising Readiness |
What Do You Know About Your Donors and What Do They Know About Your Organization? If we’re going to ask people for money, it sure helps if they think highly of both our organization and its mission. Do they see our mission as vital and valid? Are we perceived as...
by Tony Poderis | Nov 12, 2004 | Fundraising Readiness |
Introduction Are you working on a fund-raising plan—or planning to? When seeking to construct a plan for a fund-raising campaign, the persons charged by their non-profit organizations with that responsibility often ask for a plan “boilerplate,” or a...
by Tony Poderis | Aug 19, 2004 | Campaign Planning |
A successful Major Gifts fund-raising campaign is not magic. It is a straightforward, concise process of executing well-defined components arranged in a step-by-step progression. I know this to be so because I have seen it done over and over again—starting at A and...
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...
