In a recent post, Who Talks to Your Donors, I mentioned two different styles of fundraising. One style involves board members soliciting donors, and another style involves staff cultivating and soliciting donors.
Does your organization primarily use Board Member or Staff to ask for donations? And, how do you think it should be done?
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Question: Who Asks for Money?
February 25, 2010 – 9:12 am
Duplicate Solicitation Letters
February 24, 2010 – 9:03 am
I’ve heard a lot of recommendations for nonprofits to rehash their old and current website content on their blog and through their social channels. This is a great way to find some information you can use to publish, but make sure to take a strategic look at your communications. Every organization has donors who are [...]
March Goodness & Pepsi
February 23, 2010 – 8:48 am
March Goodness
Razoo is doing it again, this is year 2 in their March Goodness competition. But this year they are only letting in a small number of nonprofits. Check out the requirements to sign-up and submit your application before February 26. Grand prize is $20,000 with a number of prizes based on region around the [...]
Social Media Etiquette
February 18, 2010 – 8:03 am
I spoke with a local consulting firm a couple months ago about social media, and we started talking about social media etiquette. Because social media is so new and just starting to be widely adopted, there are not a lot of standards in place for etiquette. I was intrigued to find that one of the [...]
Characteristics of a Model Board Member
February 16, 2010 – 7:52 am
I’ve worked with a number of board members over the years. A number of readers are board members and we could all benefit from thinking through valuable traits of board members. This is by no means a comprehensive list.
These characteristics are ones I have come to value. Leave a comment and share a few of [...]
