For Impact

Daily Nuggets:
A For Impact Blog

Personal • Jan 8, 2021

Through 2020 and coming into 2021, we collected many fundraising success stories from clients and friends who had to work...

Personal • Oct 13, 2020

This is a part 2 to yesterday’s nugget: On Confidence. So how do we build confidence? Here are some ideas...

Personal • Oct 12, 2020

Confidence is something that’s not talked about enough in the world of fundraising. Thinking about the hundreds of leaders we’ve...

Personal • Nov 9, 2017

When asked for a productivity tip, Warren Buffet once said something along the lines of, “It’s simple. I do one...

Personal • Nov 3, 2017

I’ve been taking some time off from writing/posting these past two weeks. The Fellers family welcomed our fourth(!) child, baby...

Personal • Sep 21, 2017

Ray Dalio built Bridgewater into one of the most successful hedge funds in the world. He correctly predicted the 2008...

Personal • Sep 19, 2017

We’re spending the day working with leaders from a social justice movement. Each leader wears 19 hats (with fundraising being...

Personal • Aug 29, 2017

Today’s nugget is simple. It’s simple to say, simple to comprehend… and not simple to PRACTICE. The nugget (excerpt) comes...

Personal • Aug 28, 2017

Conscious processing can only handle about 120 bits of information at once. This isn’t much. Listening to another person speak...

Personal • Aug 22, 2017

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading about the intersections of meaning, value (creation), and work. Today’s nugget...

Personal • Aug 21, 2017

We. Need. Better. LEADERS. This is the reason for StartingBloc. StaringBloc is a leadership program that identifies and supports emerging...

Personal • Aug 15, 2017

Thanks to Teju Ravilochan, CEO at Uncharted, for giving me a copy of Thanks for the Feedback. The Science and...