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
Survey Says…It’s All About Building Relationships
Last week, at a luncheon held by Women in Development, the guest speaker, Claire M. Costello, shared some insightful statistics on the current giving trends of major donors. “The 2014 U.S. Trust Study of High Net
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
Using All Your Assets
Using our assets is something we do in our personal lives - we use our cash; we leverage the value of our homes; we use our educations to build careers; we tap into our friendships and
How to Get it Right: The Relationship between the Executive Director and Director of Development
This critical partnership can serve as the mojo behind an organization. It can amount to the difference between an organization scrapping by or reaching a new level of support and visibility. But