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Take This Personality Test to Help Cope With The COVID-19 Pandemic

Knowing something about your own personality may be useful as we all work to limit the spread of COVID-19. After all, not everyone copes in the same way. Self-isolation and social distancing are hard to swallow and even harder to implement. To make your self-isolation easier—or at least more understandable– here are some useful insights […]

Learn More March 30, 2020

Ken Burnett On Serenading Donors from the Fundraising Balcony

Each day I check in with a few fundraising pals around the globe to see how they’re doing, and what they’re doing. Had a wonderful chat the other afternoon with Ken Burnett, author of the classic Relationship Fundraising: A Donor Based Approach to the Business of Raising Money. Ken’s seen a lot, done a lot […]

Learn More March 27, 2020

Can Your Organization Raise Money Now?

We aren’t raising the question of “should” your organization be raising money. The question we’re asking is “how viable “will your fundraising be in this time of crisis? The answer? It depends. But first, a major caveat. The situation we are in is very different from those analyzed or theorized about in the past and […]

Learn More March 25, 2020

Emergency Aid for Nonprofits– Call to Action for US Orgs

The governments of Canada, the UK and Australia have announced they will assist nonprofits and small business suppliers with a variety of subsidies and other help. More on that later in this post. U.S. Organizations Take Action Today Meanwhile, in the U.S., as we write this on Monday evening the U.S. Senate is coming down […]

Learn More March 24, 2020

ACTION ALERT: Lifesaving Legislation for U.S. Nonprofits and Their Supply Chain

Drop everything and get your CEO, board members and top leaders on the phone first thing MONDAY morning. Here’s why. Congress is right now at work on the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act”. Short-titled the CARES ACT, this emergency financial legislation was drafted by the Republicans in the U.S. Senate and is now being circulated […]

Learn More March 22, 2020

Cancer Wrote This Book

When we mourned the passing of John Haydon, our friend and inspiration, we noted that his last act was to finish a book that distilled his life’s work and insights. Kivi Leroux Miller of Bold and Bright Media led a team of four editors as they rushed to get John’s book, DonorCARE: How to Keep Donors Coming […]

Learn More March 20, 2020