Time Management tips for super busy fundraisers

Fundraising can be fun and exciting. It’s also challenging and stressful, particularly when it comes to managing time and meeting deadlines. If this is something you struggle with, it’s important to reassess your approach. Time management, from a fundraising perspective, requires strategy and focus. It’s not something that’s just going to happen without any intentionality.

Fundraising Productivity

As a professional fundraiser, there is a constant temptation, and sometimes expectation, to try to raise funds in every possible way.  For most of the charities, fundraising is the spine of operations. As all good fundraisers know, raising money requires heavy-duty attention to ROI – return on investment. And the stakes go up when you’re

Love the Work

“I’m here in this profession because it’s joyful. I help facilitate joy and passion and meaning in people’s lives.” To be successful in fundraising you have to be personable. You have to be able to talk to people, to get them to trust you in order to trust the cause. So it’s really important that

Born to raise

Many individuals entering the profession for the first time and those hiring their first development staff person are often not certain what qualities to look for in a development professional. Often one hears that development is really just sales or marketing. The individual or organization about to embark into the world of development needs to

Impeccable Integrity

White lies. Gossip. Unkept promises. They all cost you your personal integrity. Here’s how to earn it back. When our words don’t match our actions, we lose a measure of healthy ownership and control over our lives. Careless language undermines our relationships, chips away at our sense of self and decreases our personal power. Words