Posts Tagged ‘fund raising’

Can you imagine trying to start a new non-profit during a Recession?
In recent months, I have been fortunate to be engaged by a number of new nonprofits who have just received their 501(C) 3 certification and want to get their new creation off to a good start.
In these difficult financial times, when many established nonprofits [...]

WHY DO WE MAKE FUND RAISING SO PAINFUL?
How do you enlist of group of people to help with their agency’s fundraising when their only experience in raising money has been uncomfortable or unpleasant?
That was the task I faced in my first meeting with my new client, which provides scholarships for needy kids to go [...]

IMPROVING A BOARD MEETING WITH A CONSENT AGENDA
Why are board meetings so long and often so boring? Maybe it’s because we subject people to sit and listened to long reports, one after another, month after month. We do this because we believe that as board members they have to know what’s going on at [...]

Is it really impossible to raise more money for an organization during a Recession? I don’t think so.

While there is no doubt that these are difficult times to engage in fundraising, my experience shows that many organizations do such an inadequate job in the first place, that refocusing their efforts will result [...]

It is very difficult to be optimist and hopeful during these times. For most of us in the nonprofit field things look pretty bleak. There will be up to 100,000 nonprofits that could go out of business, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

I offer some tips to do the best we can with what we’ve got. [...]

In this time of recession, it is understandable that nonprofit Board of Directors and staffs are worried. They are seeing government contracts being reduced or cancelled. Their requests for foundation grants are being denied. Special events, which they counted on to bring in the bulk of charitable income, are falling dramatically below expectations. Some are [...]