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Nonprofit Leaders: Do your donors respond to your emails?
When I started my business 13 years ago I would have never guessed I’d spend so much time on….
👉 Drafting emails that donors actually respond to.
Nonprofit Leaders: Are you aggressively scaling or moderately growing your revenue?
What are the nonprofit leaders doing whose orgs scale at a higher rate doing differently? . . .
I've witnessed a few distinct themes in the 13 years of my biz. These themes separate those orgs that were aggressively scaling vs. moderately growing.
Your Nonprofit’s Location Has Very Little Bearing on Your Fundraising Success
A funny conversation I have every few months . . .
(For context, I serve orgs all over the country but I run my biz out of Chicagoland.)
“Sherry, our board wants us to work with ‘a local consultant’ who knows the donors in our market”. Followed by . . .
What’s Nonprofit Fundraising Got To Do with Restaurants?
I’m not usually in the business of telling nonprofit leaders to read a restaurant book. And yet that's what I've done in this month's Philanthropy.org article!
Your Donors Don’t Always Know Your Nonprofit Needs Money
There’s a comment I make multiple times a day. It often gets an odd side-eye back at me. And it's true for all sized organizations - my $2M annual budget orgs and my $100M annual budget orgs . . .
In Nonprofit Fundraising, starting something is easy but stopping something is hard.
Do you know what I notice in nonprofit fundraising . . .
Starting something is easy.
Stopping something is hard.
Nonprofit Fundraising—Spending Money to Raise More Money
Too many nonprofits are eager to tell me what they’d SAVE money for. But, too many struggle to articulate what they’d eagerly SPEND money on.
Fundraising Events—Are Your Nonprofit Donors Giving Their Best Gifts to Your Organization?
On multiple occasions these last few weeks, I’ve heard something like this: “My board member wants to throw a fundraising event but they want it to be FUN for their networks they’re inviting.”
Now, I'm NOT suggesting that we should plan boring fundraising events . . .
Nonprofit Leaders: Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
My colleague, Rudy Flesher, shared this post from Candid earlier this week & the stat DID NOT surprise me one bit. That stat?
“Less than one third of the public knew that nonprofits lost government grant funding, and 36% of them said if they'd known they would have donated more.”
My Approach to Nonprofit Consulting
“We don’t like consultants. They just give advice and don’t really do anything.”
Huh?
This was literally describing THE OPPOSITE of my approach to consulting. Frankly, it was the opposite of what my clients were telling me…
My Nonprofit Client Grew by $2.7M in One Year
Yesterday I caught up with a client from last year. Ironically our chat was on the last day of their fiscal year (March 31). I asked, “how’s it going?" . . .
“Well, we’re ending the year $2.7M ahead of goal.”
Yes, TWO POINT SEVEN MILLION.
Nope. Not an April Fools joke . . .
Nonprofit Relational Fundraising is About Momentum
The other day, during a board workshop about fundraising, one of my clients said a phrase that I immediately wrote down….
He said, “We’re looking for momentum…not a miracle.”
I loved it. Especially in the context of relational fundraising.
Are Your Nonprofit’s Board Members More Skeptical or Curious?
This blog is directed to your Board Members. Because what I'd LOVE to tell them is that there's a BIG difference between curious and skeptical.
And you’ve got to get it right.