A powerful example of narrative storytelling from Southern Poverty Law Center in this week’s Power of Nonprofit Storytelling: “I’m just a normal guy like anyone else”
How are you making your donors FEEL? Another terrific example from Heifer International in this week’s What’s in my Inbox.
See how this Basics & More Alum raised $20k with her first donor-centered newsletter (no ask!) in this week’s What’s in my Mailbox.
We know that segmentation by your donor’s big WHY is more effective than segmenting purely by dollar amount. But what does that LOOK like in real life? Nick Ellinger with Channel vs. Identity: Two Go In; One Comes Out
Help I Just Lost My Google Ad Grant. New from Beth Kanter.
Dear #Nonprofit, You Have a Retention Problem. (Now Let’s Unsuck It.). From the brilliant Lisa Sargent.
Richard Perry with an oh-so-simple System to Increase Transformational Gifts. This *systems* thinking – it works!
It’s been years and I still miss the inimitable Katya Andresen from her days at Network for Good. Fortunately for us she’s still writing. Doing great work by dancing with fear
A New Model for Financing Nonprofits. Yawn. Same old story. A bunch of billionaires think they have answers.
I couldn’t love Robin Cabral more. She’s a former Simple Development Systems Member (and now we’re going to do a new class for you) and she’s written this week’s must-read post, OORAH – What the Marines taught me about fundraising
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