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Is your 2026 going to be just like your 2025?
Let’s be frank: Probably yes.
If that’s good news to you, congratulations!
If it’s not good news, welcome to the well-attended club!
Because being a fundraising professional is hard. You have too much to do. Not enough time, budget, or staff to do it.
Feeling overwhelmed is the nor...
There’s a lot of bad advice out there about how soon you should ask a donor for their next gift. Especially on LinkedIn, where it seems you don’t really need actual knowledge to pontificate about such things.
So I was glad to see some useful and trustworthy information on LinkedIn recently, in
Do your fundraising stories matter?
I’m not kidding around. So many stories are just a recounting of something that happened. Maybe well-written. Possibly interesting.
But nothing big is at stake.
Nothing that requires the donor to take action and make some kind of change possible.
If nothing bad will happen without the don...
One thing about professional fundraisers: They are stretched too thin.
Almost all the time.
It’s incredibly common. They have too much to do. Not enough time to do it.
In fact, they’re frequently called on to raise more money this year. With fewer resources than last year.
That’s a recipe for burnout. Or at least lowered effectiveness. ...
I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Yes, the worst thank you letter ever written by a nonprofit to its donors.
Okay, I can’t verify that it’s the worst. But this one has to be close. Here it is (names and details changed to protect the guilty parties):
Dear [Salutation],
At its highest aspiration, philanthropy is a way to fulfill our desire to have ...
