Are you trying to figure out how to have more lucrative and satisfying relationships with funders in your sponsorship program? How do you know you are even ready for the transition from rubber chicken dinners to collaborative and innovative partnerships? Bill Pitcher suggests you conduct a Sponsorship Gut Check to figure out how ready you are to revamp your program. Here are the eight things you need to do.
When you are presenting the budget to your board is the room so full of smiles and nods that you wonder if anyone actually took the time to read it? Do you think your board really understands the budgeting process in your organization? Do you? Jeffrey Miller is here to help. As an experienced board member and even more experienced accountant Jeffrey has some budgeting basics to share so that you can start a conversation within your organizatio
How much time do you waste everyday looking for information? Are your files organized and accessible? If there was a flood or fire would you even know what information was lost? Tiffany Nyklickova has six practically useful steps you can take to getting your organizational memory organized and accessible.
If your charity could access a giant rolodex of people with skills and talent for free would you do it? Linked In is more than a website used to find a job. In this article Kim Fuller outlines how to use Linked In identify volunteers, board members employees and yes…even donors.
Staff and management alike often procrastinate and take short cuts when it comes to performance evaluations. There is so much actual fundraising to do that this seemingly onerous process often gets pushed aside. In this article Andrea Swinton explains how to embraces a clear, supportive and specific performance evaluation that can help raise more money for your organization.