For CEOs and Future CEOs: Keep Donor Relations on Your Desk!
By Sandra Baker I get it! You are swamped. Your multi-faceted role requires you to be an expert in every aspect of your charity, from the cost of office coffee through to the minute details of every program you run. And, you must be an expert in human resources, budget …
Apply Due Diligence Before Restricting the Use of Gifts
Donors who restrict their gifts to avoid funding “bricks & mortar” or “overhead’ may unintentionally hinder a charity’s mission. Insights from investing in for-profit companies can help inform a more effective approach to philanthropy. By Peter Fardy Most people involved in philanthropy have, at some point, heard a donor declare …
Community-centric criticisms are an opportunity for donor-centered fundraising to reinvent itself
Donor-centered fundraising (DCF) is facing challenges from the new community-centric fundraising movement; Accept challenges, build on them to ‘reinvent’ itself; Sufficient common ground between the two approach for an accord to be struck Donor-cenetred fundraising (DCF) is the dominant mode of thought and practice in the fundraising profession. But its core …