Blog Posts
Impact of a Gift: Lettuce Not Forget What is More Than Enough
Lettuce was on sale at the grocery store. Not just iceberg, but red leaf and romaine. I didn’t buy one head or two, but I bought three. After all, it was on sale! Have you ever taken more than you needed? Do our donors feel like that about our nonprofit? An exercise...
Planned Giving: Letters from the Past
“Hope your belly quits hurting soon” was the beginning of the letter written to me by a seven-year-old on March 29, 1991. She must have asked an adult what to write next and she was told to talk about her school, toys or family. It gives insight about who she was. All...
Attitude of Gratitude: The Story You’ll Tell in Your Year-End Strategy
Feeling gratitude had not been on Dave Tally’s mind for the previous six years as he had been homeless and living on the streets of Tempe, Arizona. He readily admits that losing his career as a landscaper was because of his own poor life choices of drinking and drugs....
Bear Sightings and Fundraising
This was in the local Vail, Colorado newspaper today about the recent bear sightings. You may ask what relationship it has to fundraising? Well, the number of people who read this post on my social media today sky rocketed. To get people's attention to donate to your...
Spreading an Attitude of Gratitude
Are you thinking about how to prepare for end of the year fundraising? Maybe you can start with preparing yourself, like I did. Tim and I created a Gratitude Jar. Every week for one year we wrote on a piece of paper something that made us feel grateful. Sometimes...
Do You Know What Time it is?
Yes, you probably guessed it from the photo. It is autumn and that means end-of-year fundraising is knocking at our door. What are you doing to prepare? Here's an idea that may help get you jump started. In your appeal letter you will be telling stories about how your...