Job one of a new nonprofit leader is to understand the organization’s constituents. Especially at an aging and community-based institution, a new leader must slow down to get to know its members. In this interview...

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Making your nonprofit more professional is key to retaining team members and staying fiscally healthy. A well-run organization is basic to accomplishing your mission. It’s how you create a vibrant culture that retains employees and...

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Identifying the real problem in any situation is often the biggest challenge. In the book, Leadership Jazz, Max DuPree wrote that the first job of a leader is to define reality, the second is to...

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Focusing your message can be extremely difficult because of this one simple fact: your donors are not like you. Today, many nonprofit organizations are led and staffed by people who are much younger than their...

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Solving donor attrition begins with an assessment of current reality. There are many reasons why donors stop giving, some of which are out of your control. A recent study revealed that for many organizations, only...

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Monthly giving programs are so 1980s. Yes, they may be. But monthly giving programs still work. In this episode, we discuss the key reasons you need a monthly giving program. It’s quite simple to set...

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If you aren’t social, you are a dinosaur. That sentiment puts a lot of pressure on smaller nonprofits to implement a social media plan. In this episode, we go back to the basics and discuss...

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Your nonprofit has a mission, a great cause that unites the troops. That’s the nature of nonprofits. But at heart of your organization is also a story, a narrative. Are you able to tell your...

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Nonprofit brand awareness is the holy grail. It lowers the cost of almost every metric, including what it costs you to land one new donor. Nonprofit brand awareness makes everything, at least on the surface,...

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Donors, of all sizes, are at the heart of most nonprofits. And building stronger donor relations should be a core assumption and value of our work. And yet often the busyness of the daily grind...

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