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One of our favorite quotes is Dr. Martin Luther King’s: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” And I like to think that you and I have ‘bent the arc’ a little bit towards justice this year.
...Two weeks ago at the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference, I shared an idea that’s challenging to some fundraisers and organizations:
Many effective appeals & campaigns are “sequels” of previous successful appeals or campaigns.
Here’s what I mean…
Say you send an appeal in March and it works great. Whe...
Today I’d like to share two videos with you. Both are easy watches and contain “ideas worth spreading.”
The first is Dan Pallotta’s TED talk from a few years ago. (It has 1.1 million views, but it should have a lot more, in my opinion.)
It’s called “The way we think about charity is dead wrong.” Essentially, Dan argues that by focusing so much on “revenue...
Last year, a few days before I was travelling to speak at a conference, my kids asked me what it was it was going to be like when I gave my speech.
I told them there would be several hundred people in the room, I’d be on a stage, that my face would be on a couple big video screens to that people in the back could see me, and that I was thankful that I don’t really ...
If your nonprofit wants to raise $1 million three years from now, ask nonprofits who are currently raising $1 million what they did three years ago.
Here’s what you’ll find: the path to where you want to go is knowable and has been travelled before.
There are outliers of course, but for instance…
