Author: Guest Contributor Brent Hafele

I was at a conference in Baltimore a while ago, when I was approached by an executive director of a nonprofit.
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Are you familiar with Henry Ford’s $5 a day wages? They were revolutionary at a time when $2.25 a day was a decent wage. Ford did this for two reasons: ...
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Social media sites like Facebook and YouTube are lighting up with the ice bucket challenge. From Bill Gates (who engineered his own structure for the ...
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The rumors have been flying for months. The media has been obsessing about how big it will be, what features it will have, if it will come in gold, and ...
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The second question in my series on capital campaigns comes from Amanda of Indiana:
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Recently, I gave a webinar on how to avoid four common capital campaign mistakes. The response has been phenomenal. Nonprofit leaders from all over North ...
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Neil (name changed to protect his identity) called me recently in frustration. After several years of a capital campaign that never really seemed to take ...
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There are two different types of nonprofit agencies: those on the Campaign Cycle and those on the Growth Cycle.
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I was puzzled by this nonprofit advertisement I saw recently at Seattle Tacoma International Airport:
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My first fundraising job was at Hope Gospel Mission (HGM), a homeless shelter in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. At the time, HGM was just four years old with a ...
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