by Cyndi Lauren | Dec 6, 2018 | communications, development and fundraising, Financial Reporting, Fresh Eyes, fundraising, Nonprofit operations, office workflow, Operations, Protecting Yourself, Strategic Planning
We are all breathlessly waiting for the end of this year. Cranking through Giving Tuesday and and the run up to the End -Of-The-Year fundraising push is lots of hard work and hopefully will provide you with big dividends. January is right around the corner when...
by Cyndi Lauren | Oct 30, 2018 | communications, Fresh Eyes, messaging, Nonprofit operations
You Work Hard: If you really want people to read your stuff, make it easy for them to want to read it. Managing the readability of your message is as important as the content. If, at first glance, it looks like too much work, very few will bother to read it. Don’t...
by Cyndi Lauren | Sep 25, 2018 | communications, development and fundraising, fundraising, Making Money, messaging, Nonprofit operations
What is Giving Tuesday? GivingTuesday started 7 years ago to kick off the holiday fundraising season. It is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, following the original Black Friday and Cyber Monday. When Is Giving Tuesday?: November 27, 2018 Can anyone participate?...
by Cyndi Lauren | Sep 19, 2018 | annual gala, Commentary, communications, Emergency Planning, Nonprofit operations, Operations, Protecting Yourself, Strategic Planning
Plan for bear, hope for squirrel Let’s face it, something is going to go wrong. Plan on it; you won’t know what, when or how, but reliably something will screw up at the event. There will be acts of God, weather, earthquakes, accidents, and my all time favorite,...
by Cyndi Lauren | Sep 6, 2018 | annual gala, development and fundraising, Fresh Eyes, fundraising, Nonprofit operations, Strategic Planning
Fundraising gets more competitive every day: new organizations, big organizations with professional fundraising staff, high profile celebrities and athletes setting up funds for disasters and emergencies that sadly seem to come...
by Cyndi Lauren | Aug 21, 2018 | communications, development and fundraising, Fresh Eyes, fundraising, Making Money, messaging, Nonprofit operations, Protecting Yourself
I’m sorry, its going to be a no. As fundraisers, we spend tons of time working hard to get donor prospects to say yes to our solicitations. We crave the check in the envelope and watch the online donor daily totals get larger and larger. I’ve been there,...
