Ninja Your Goals
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Guest Contributor Brent Hafele
“Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.” — ...
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The Biggest Lie About Naming Recognition
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Guest Contributor Brent Hafele
If you were donating one million dollars to a new hospital, which room would you want named after you? The nursery? The IT department? The third floor ...
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Which is better: direct mail or event fundraising?
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Guest Contributor Brent Hafele
After one of my fundraising classes, a participant asked me, “Which is better: direct mail or event fundraising?”
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Never Trust a Client With a Mic at a Fundraising Banquet
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Guest Contributor Brent Hafele
“I never trust a client with a mic,” a director once told me. It can be a PR nightmare. I’ve heard horror stories about clients saying inappropriate ...
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3 Reasons You Need a Consultant for Your Pre-Campaign Feasibility Study
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Guest Contributor Brent Hafele
A Feasibility Study is the first impression many donors will have about your capital campaign. I’ve met people who, rather than hiring a consultant, sent ...
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Creating Authentic Donor Relationships for Sustainable Fundraising
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Guest Contributor Brent Hafele
Have any of you dumped ice water on yourself lately? Facebook used to be flooded with ice bucket videos; now it’s just quiz results of “Which Harry Potter ...
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3 Simple Secrets for Public Speaking
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Guest Contributor Brent Hafele
Why talk about public speaking, you ask? Because speaking engagements are one of the best free ways to brand your nonprofit and reach out to new donors. I ...
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4 Ways to Lose That Worry Weight
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DickersonBakker
Confession: I’m an anxious little stress-monster. While I’m writing this blog post, I’m also thinking about the grant report I have to write, planning for ...
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Special Update: 4 Dirty Nonprofits (And How Not to Be Like Them)
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Guest Contributor Brent Hafele
Odds are good that it didn’t start with jet ski rides in the Caribbean or shopping trips to Victoria’s Secret. Instead, the cancer charities that ...
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