Latest Articles
Successful Fundraising in Tough Times – What smart fundraisers need to be doing now!
No-Ask Fundraising: Six High-Impact Jobs for Board Members – How do we harness our board members’ passion for the cause and channel it into productive fundraising activities? Here are practical, easy ways your board members can open the door, connect their friends to your organization, expand your organization’s social networks, and help you find new friends and donors—without having to solicit.
Four Steps to Take Board Members from Fear of Fundraising to Enthusiasm – If you want to get your board members fully active in fundraising, you need to approach them from a new perspective. You have to change their mind-set about fundraising and redefine it from an entirely new point of view. Board members don’t understand how powerful the act of raising money can be—it’s an effort to make the world a better place. …
The Fired-Up Board: Preparing Your Board Members for Fundraising – Just think, how much could your organization raise if you had all your board members engaged in fundraising?
The Myths and Realities of Board Members and Fundraising – Despite what you may have heard, most board members are trained to greatness, not born to it.
Five Fundraising Mistakes We Make With Our Board - Having trouble getting your board members to pitch in with fundraising? See if you’re committing one or more of these errors
Additional Articles:
- 10 Easy Ways Board Members Can Raise Money
- 12 Ways to Liven Up Your Board Meetings —and Your Board
- Advice Visits: Searching for Hidden Gold
- Gail Perry’s Golden Rules of Fundraising
- How a Feasibility Campaign Planning Study can Catapult Your Campaign Forward
- Ten Basic Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards
- The Board’s Resource Development Committee Job Description
