As fundraisers around the world get ready to descend on Toronto for Canada’s largest fundraising conference, it makes sense to take a minute and think about how you learn. Rickesh Lakhani encourages you to think more like a child and to be willing to accept new ideas and let go of some of your old assumptions.
Email is a powerful took for your nonprofit. When implemented effectively your email strategy has the ability to transform your fundraising efforts. Kathleen Grace offers three techniques for actively working to grow your mailing list.
More and more corporations are creating campaigns that focus on a social issue. These campaigns have big budgets and are often very compelling. Heather Nelson raises a serious point - where are the charities in these campaigns? Often they don’t exist at all. Why is that and how can we as a sector do better with corporate partnerships?
The status quo simply isn’t working anymore. In spite of this many fundraisers find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Many organizations are resistant to change. Juniper Locilento introduces the concept of a growth mindset and is ready to help you wrestle down the change resisters in your organization.
Sometimes you can love something and feel incredibly uncertain at the same time. That can happen a lot with conferences. Kimberley MacKenzie reveals some of her dirty conference secrets and offers some advice for how to handle natural insecurities that some of us may share.
