You May Have a More Peaceful Relationship to Money than Your (Prospective) Donor or Investor Yes, you might: you may have a more peaceful relationship to money than your (prospective) donor or investor does. If you read this blog, it might be to gain a......
Winter Fundraising is Harvesting By this point in the year, everyone is fundraising. And by this point in the year, our fundraising should feel like harvesting. But too often, it doesn’t. It feels frantic, desperate. The opposite of relaxed and patiently harvesting the fruits of......
I love teaching people to ask for money There are few things that juice me as much as the happy sound of people asking other people for money. The laughter! The delighted newfound confidence! The quiet, focused intimacy that emerges between donors and askers as......
What Makes You Unique is What Your Brand Doesn’t Do This is a follow-on post to our last one featuring brandmaster Kurt Bartolich. Kurt is emphatic about the importance of being objective about what you do do. Asking other people what you do by surveying......
What is Fundraising? The Answer is Surprising Fundraising is accepting money. Money wants to come in; fundraising is letting it. The Hardest Part of Fundraising Fundraising includes many things but the hardest for most people is letting money in. If you don’t believe me, look at......
A new soul-colleague told me the other day he had doubted I could really raise money because I looked like his grandmother. At first, I was insulted. But I do often dress like someone’s grandmother. And I act like this grandmother in the picture–projects and......
What Counts as Marketing?: Building on Your Own Great Bones One of the most interesting client meetings I’ve had recently was about what really counts as marketing. My client wanted a marketing plan, including timeline, like we create for RAISING CLARITY. This post tells you a lot of......
What Are You Selling? The question caught me unawares, so I thought I’d ask you. 😆 What are you selling? I had no immediate answer when the questioner arrived at my booth table (see photo above). But at every other booth, someone was selling something.......
Using a Crisis to Build Power This post is for a group of beloved soul-colleagues experiencing a fundraising crisis and another looking at a deeply held dream through the far end of a tunnel, wondering how to walk through that tunnel and achieve that dream......
The Secret to Fundraising is One You Already Know The secret to fundraising is so obvious, it’s hidden! Most people have no idea they already have the basic skills needed for fundraising because they take their skills for granted, and think they have to be......
