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May202021

Rapid Planning: Why and How to Think Strategically About the Critical Months Ahead

We've been talking to many clients and other nonprofit leaders at this important point of transition during the COVID-19 crisis. They're asking: How can we rebuild for future success and feel confident in our decision-making while operating under such uncertain times? Here, we have the answer to your organization's road to recovery.

May202013

COVID Crisis Month Two

Vice President Cathy Card Sterling answers five major questions that we have been hearing most frequently from organizations during the COVID-19 crisis. She also offers one more response--to a question people tend not to ask, but ought to.

May202012

Development Takes Center Stage

With the reliance most nonprofits have on philanthropic support, chief development officers and their teams will be key to the recovery, the long-term sustainability and the vitality of their organizations.

Apr202028

Dear Pandemic Procrastinator: A Love Letter

Our own Kelly Grattan provides top-notch advice to a pandemic procrastinator, desperately trying to understand how to help her organization effectively respond to the COVID-19 crisis.

Apr202021

Leadership, Rapid Response & Urgency: A Personal Reflection

Personal reflections on life in our new reality have given Director Kelly Grattan reason to wonder how her own behavior and responses to the crisis might help nonprofits react most successfully to the current situation.

Apr202021

Direct Response Marketing in Strange Days

Today, business as usual is impossible to consider, and any sort of new normal seems months or years away. As a result, the organizations our direct response team serves are asking new questions every day about how they should and should not be reaching out to donors and prospects. Here are some solid starting points.

Apr202017

Ramping Up to A.I. for Major Gift Fundraising

With the ability to assimilate massive volumes of data and render insightful judgements, artificial intelligence promises one day to be a powerful asset for major gift fundraisers.

Apr202013

Tapping & Building the Strength of Your Board

Now is the time to engage your organization's board more fully than ever. Drawing strength from your board, and, at the same time, strengthening it for beyond the Coronavirus crisis, is key to your organization's future success.

Mar202023

Advice from the Top

President Scott Schultz shares several ways to make the best of our current fundraising climate. This is a time to take decisive action, advancing your organization’s ability to not only survive this crisis, but to be positioned to achieve success when it subsides.

Mar20209

What’s the Plan? Getting Intentional About Success in Mid-Level Giving

Does your organization realize the full importance of mid-level giving to your fundraising success? Discover the steps you can take to develop the right institutional mindset, and infrastructure around it, to develop and execute an effective mid-level giving program.

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