Ensuring A Nonprofit’s Future – With Major Gifts
Most non-profits don’t live on grants from corporations, foundations and governments, or from event generated…
Hank Lewis, MA, CFRM
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Does Your Organization Have a REAL Director of Development?
Ideally, from day one, an organization should have someone who knows/understands the NPO, its mission,…
Financing & Loans
Fundraising vs Development
It Can Be Confusing to Someone New to the Field…. To review a basic concept,…
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A Capital Campaign Horror Story – Part Three
This is a three-part story of a small Historical Society that embarked upon a Capital…
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A Capital Campaign Horror Story – Part Two
This is a three-part story of a small Historical Society that embarked upon a Capital…
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A Capital Campaign Horror Story – In Three Parts, Part One
(This is an email I’d received, with my comments in bold.) We are a small…
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Should We Ask Our Donors To Give More Than Once Each Year ??
An email noted: “Staff members at my organization seem to believe we will lose our…
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING
WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST AND HOPING YOU’RE SPENDING THIS HOLIDAY WITH PEOPLE YOU CARE…
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A Question About the Structure of a Development Office
A recent email described changes to the structure/function of the different departments in an organization’s…
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Strategic vs “Tactical” Planning
A participant in a listserve observed that ”the realm of ‘planning’ is (often) made infinitely…
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Should You Recognize Donors on Your Website?
On a listserve dealing with nonprofit-related legal matters, an attorney commented: “I can think of…
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Major (and Other) Gift Prospects: Creating the Relationship
To paraphrase a posting from a listserve: “If you are going to get someone to…
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The Gift Table … Chiseled in Stone ??
A couple of weeks ago, in response to the posting “comparing” a Capital Campaign to…
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What Nonprofits Should Know About Bequests
Unlike all of the other planned giving mechanisms, a bequest program doesn’t require major technical…
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Can the Executive Director Get a Piece of the Funds That Are Raised?
A question was asked: I know that charitable organizations often have phone banks or door-to-door…
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Capital Campaign and Annual Fundraising Efforts: Difference
That was the first part of a question … that continued to ask: “I believe…