Archive for October, 2009
Face Time Counts!
If you have ever had any sales or leadership training, you probably have heard the phrase “Face Time Counts.” You may have heard it so many times that you think it’s a cliché or at least a hackneyed phrase. It may be both, but it’s also true.
I was at a workplace giving charity [...]
Bullfeathers! Donors are Donors!
Bullfeathers – Donors are Donors
Fundraising for non-profits is hard enough, without non-profit professionals trying to make it harder. “Bullfeathers” to quote Teddy Roosevelt is my reaction to the post about givers not having “earned the right” to be called “donors” in the Donor Power Blog.
The blog that used to written by Jeff Brooks, [...]
How Many Volunteers Can Dance on the Point of a Needle?
The discussion about “What is a volunteer” resurfaces every few months in the non-profit sector. Here’s my take on it:
What is a volunteer? Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary offers the best on-line definition according to the Friends of the Reston (VA) Library Association:
Volunteer – to offer oneself for a particular task, of one’s own [...]
Words Matter – Nonprofit Fundraising and the Washington Redskins
Words matter.
The order of the words (and sentences) matter.
I went to the Redskins football game yesterday (Sunday, October 18, 2009) because I had an opportunity to buy three face value tickets, and my sons (age 9 and 10) had never been to an NFL game before.
For the uninitiated the Washington Redskins have [...]
The Seven Keys to CFC Success
The Seven Keys to Success for a CFC Nonprofit are:
1) Work from your strengths.
2) Learn the CFC game – what the rules are, and how to play.
3) Use all 12 months of the year.
4) Understand why the CFC is the most donor friendly means of contributing in the world, and how to use that fact to help your nonprofit [...]
Workplace Giving Works Because Colleagues Ask Colleagues
Much of the non-profit world has forgotten about the many benefits of workplace giving. It is still the only means of non-profit fundraising that is subsidized, high leverage and low risk. One way that it is subsidized is the fact that the people performing the actual solicitations are the colleagues of those being asked, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Workplace Giving is NOT synonymous with United Way
There are really at least three different issues going on in the threads of the discussion about United Ways on the Chronicle of Philanthropy website, and I do think that it’s worthwhile to separate and identify them, because they are separate and distinct.
The three issues are:
1. Workplace giving as a viable means of non-profit [...]
United Way Controversy on Chronicle of Philanthropy
United Workers for the Untied Way (not United – Un Tied)
There is a heated discussion taking place on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s website under the article “Majority of Local United Ways Report Declines in Donations.” http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=9689
The gist of many of the comments are opinions expressed that the United Ways have been [...]
