Anything that lasts requires time and attention. Your car won’t continue to run for years if you avoid oil changes. A house doesn’t stand for decades on end without proper attention and maintenance. Relationships, too, are more likely to stand the test of time when they exist in a nurturing environment where effort is put …
Nonprofit
How to Secure More Large Gifts from Donors
As the saying goes, every dollar counts. Even still, your nonprofit organization is not going to reach a comfortable level of sustainability and growth without large gifts from individual and corporate donors. Securing dollars like this is part of a trust-building process between your organization and the donor — it’s not something that is going …
Tips On Purpose: Finding the Start of Passion
You’ve heard the stories before: an inventor and entrepreneur starts a project, working diligently in the wee hours of night — long after logging a full 9 to 5 for the day — to build a new product and launch a company to call their own. Companies like Apple and Amazon have been said to …
Launching a Nonprofit: A Personal Journey to Benefit Others
My nonprofit story has two sides to its coin. I work as a professional writer to help nonprofits with fundraising, grant writing and communications. My second nonprofit “affiliation” is that I am part of one, I am launching a nonprofit with several of my family members. Our organization, Positive Every Day Cancer Foundation, Inc., is inspired …
Successful Nonprofit Fundraising Starts with Story-Telling
So, you’re the Executive Director of a nonprofit. Or, you’ve recently joined a nonprofit board and are hoping to make a difference. Maybe you’ve been helping out for a while, and your nonprofit fundraising goals continue unmet. Let me ask you this: if you really think about it, are you actually sharing your nonprofit’s story? …