4 Questions To Help You Prioritize Fundraising Tasks When You’re Pressed For Time
If you are doing your job well as an Executive Director or Director of Development, you are getting pulled in a million different directions at the same time, all the time. That's because you are, rightly,
Don’t Change For Your Funders…or Should You?
“We shouldn’t chase funding. We shouldn’t change our mission and work to be more appealing to donors.” We hear this from nonprofit leaders from time to time at TakeTwo. On paper, it is totally true. But, in
#GivingTuesday – A Flurry Of Asks…
I got at least 20 requests for support on #GivingTuesday last week. How many did you get? Maybe we can make it a competition! Regardless of the saturation of requests we all receive on this now annual
Our New Video And How We Made It
In July, Stephanie and I had exactly half-a-day together when we both were free to “take off” from work, and how did we choose to spend it? By filming our new video, of course! Can you
Why your nonprofit should be on Twitter
What a month. Earlier this month, when we at TakeTwo discussed what we might blog about, Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (#RFRA) was all over the news. Now, of course, US news is dominated by #BaltimoreUprising. At
10 Things Every Non-Profit Can Learn From The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
This is TakeTwo's first BuzzFeed list! You can see this list in all its visual glory on BuzzFeed here. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Regardless of the different opinions out there about it, IT WORKED. The organization
One Of The Best Things A Nonprofit Can Do: Practice What You Preach
Two Cents has focused the last couple of blogs on work culture - the challenges and opportunities to improve it in our modern day’s changing work environment. It’s something we come back to often. As part of
Guest post: Leaning In – One Designer And Mom’s View
I’m an avid reader, but by and large, I have a strong aversion to business books. They are usually boring, full or nauseating buzzwords or totally inapplicable to my life as a sole proprietor of a
Got An Hour? Watch Our Webinar: The Critical (And Often Lonely) Transition from Program Director to Executive Director
This past Thursday, we had the pleasure of presenting a webinar with Purvi Shah, former Executive Director of Sakhi for South Asian Women. During the webinar, Purvi shared some of the lessons she learned while
Don’t Forget Your Biggest Asset – Cultivating Loyalty in Your Employees
Good, loyal, hardworking talent is difficult to find. I’ve always had a visceral reaction to staff turnover. It makes me sad. If I work for the organization myself, I feel vulnerable to the change and afraid