Seven ways to get inspired as a fundraiser
Here are seven ways how I have helped get myself ‘in the zone’.
A new conversation
So, once again this year’s International Fundraising Congress comes to a close. It’s a potent cocktail, leaving you with a feeling of exhaustion and exhilaration, bringing you clarity and even confusion by challenging your existing thinking. Amongst my scribbled notes I can sense some sparks of insight – possibly even the emergence of an epiphany.…
A New Quest
Join me in 2017 as I unpack my five year experiment and help you with your quest
Question yourself
Question those assumptions we often take for granted. The rules are changing and we need to change with them.
On a mission
So what are the top insights from my time during my five year mission in the laboratory called SolarAid? Actually its surprisingly simple.
Why I’m not a worried fundraiser
So for those who sign up to FPS how will they decide to they will they give to if we can’t ask them?! We will need to touch their hearts in their world and engage them via issues that interest them.
Matched Giving Magic
Matched giving can not only double your money it can lift the very money that is doubled! That’s magic.
Get talking
Last night I learned something. I did an evening talk to my peers – a room full of fundraisers from a wide range of causes. Major donor fundraisers at that. With a day to go that feeling of ‘why oh why did I agree to do a talk?‘ crept in. Those doubts of whether what…
What would you do? My top 10 for fundraisers.
Many blogs are acknowledging fundraising is in a bit of a crisis. Rising acquisition costs, falling response rates, global economic crisis… bla bla bla. So what would you do? Here is my top 10.
Are you listening?
So if we want to build relationships we need to listen more.
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