Initially, focusing on S.M.A.R.T. (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely) goals and objectives has been established and some strategy sessions have taken place, now it’s time to determine what resources are needed so that a project can move forward. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how incredible [...]
You’ve been asked to write a nonprofit bio introducing your new ED. When you protest, you’re told “It’s simple. Just a few facts. Really, we don’t need much.” Ack. It’s not all that simple. How do you know what facts to include and what to leave out? What will your [...]
How to be a better leader, AND get better donor relationships? It’s all about the questions. Recently I was chiding a friend of mine for not asking better questions. THEN I realized that I had been ashamed myself, for not asking better questions, for literally years. I had a friend [...]
When I tell people I’m a fundraiser, they don’t often realize that working in the field of nonprofits is a thing you can do. And what’s more, there are many different flavors of nonprofit professional. Even fundraising itself has a myriad of sub-specialties. Conjure the image of a fundraiser and [...]
As a nonprofit, you are always looking for new ways to improve your development efforts. In order to do this, it is important to periodically take a fresh look at your operations with regard to development. But, where should you begin? To start, there are common, industry measurement tools and [...]
Hey. You care about keeping your donors. That’s why you’re on the Bloomerang blog, right? You want more ideas about how to get donors to stay with you. I want you to keep your donors too. Do you even know what your donor retention rate is? Here’s how to calculate [...]
Are your development operations set up for success? Is the program team at war with development? Does communications get treated like a service fulfillment department by everyone else? Are major gifts and direct mail fighting over donors or who gets credit? Are donors treated like ATMs? Do you have a [...]
Hi Bloomerang readers! Guest blogger Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising here. I’m a nonprofit consultant in leadership and fundraising. For the last four years I’ve run two online conferences that Bloomerang has sponsored, The Fundraising Career Conference and the Nonprofit Leadership Summit. This means I’m a nonprofit worker advocate [...]
Bloomerang and I have made a survey! Let us know what makes you like a job, and what makes you NOT like a job! We want to figure out what's most important to you, to then share the results as far and wide as possible! Why? So you can have [...]
There’s a lot being written about donor retention – why it’s important and how to increase it – and even more data on the averages within the nonprofit sector. We're curious what the real pursuit of donor retention looks like among boots-on-the-ground fundraisers. Your responses to this short, 2-minute survey [...]
Hey hey hey Bloomerang readers! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Mazarine Treyz. My business is Wild Woman Fundraising, and I’m a nonprofit consultant in leadership and fundraising. For the last four years I’ve run two online conferences that Bloomerang has sponsored, The Fundraising Career [...]
Are you successful? How can you tell? Isn’t it great, to look back on a recently completed fiscal year, and say, “yes, we did it! We were successful!” But many fundraisers can’t ever experience that little bit of euphoria. Nor can their chief executives or their governing boards. It’s not [...]