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Team • Sep 22, 2023

I’ve probably interviewed hundreds of development candidates and coached thousands. What makes a good fundraiser? First, the mistakes and table...

Team • May 25, 2023

Here are some things to think about among team members as you prepare your visit strategy. Clarifying the goal In...

Team • Oct 20, 2021

The turnover rate of nonprofit development professionals is alarmingly high. A study published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy a few...

Team • Feb 1, 2021

“We want to build a culture of philanthropy.”  Nonprofit leaders often use this phrase as a way of saying that...

Team • Jan 18, 2021

The Team Selling Framework is a powerful visual that helps define roles and responsibilities within the Sales Process. In this framework, roles...

Team • Oct 6, 2020

The size of a team is one of our first considerations when trying to build a fundraising campaign team, or...

Team • Jan 21, 2020

“Without an action plan, the executive becomes a prisoner of events.”– Peter Drucker in What Makes an Effective Executive Drucker...

Team • Jan 14, 2020

Many of us are taught to PRESENT, but almost nobody is taught to ENGAGE. When we are taught to PRESENT...

Team • Nov 20, 2019

I just finished reading What You Do is Who You Are, by Ben Horowitz. I was a HUGE fan of...

Team • Nov 14, 2017

“You haven’t taught it until they’ve learned it.” – John Wooden ————————- Tied to this simple nugget, Bill Parcells (in...

Team • Nov 10, 2017

Every organization is perfectly designed to get the results they are getting. This is one of our refrains. Whereas many...

Team • Oct 24, 2017

Ichak Adizes created the working theory and framework for organizational lifecycles. Many ‘gurus’ have duplicated, or built upon, his lifecycle framework....