Your opening line has a BIG impact on how your donors react and feel. Notice, I didn’t start with, “How WE open OUR year-end messages…” or “The Artful Asker has a tremendous success record of year end giving results…” Why? It’s all about you. It’s NOT about me. It’s not about my company. Sure…WE accomplish […]
Professor Mike Leckrone, 82, is completing his 50th year directing the University of Wisconsin Marching Band. He shared his plans with humor. “My doctors said I needed to slow down… so I’m looking for new doctors.” For most of my undergrad years the band was not open to women. Sensing this was Mike’s last year […]
Do you agree there’s magic in Three’s? The research will support you on this. Going to the store for three things? You say them to yourself. Ok. Four? Probably need to write a list. There is something “doable” and memorable about three. This is important to understand in both your major gift development work…and your […]
You could feel the excitement as the dots connected at my MORE Major Gifts workshop! Artful relationship management! YES! This class, for the first time, contained a Board President, Director of Development and Development Assistant – all from the same organization! You can be sure they will meet a massive year-end matching challenge after attending […]
As much as I am deliberately in the moment, present, drinking in every minute of this glorious summer, it is slipping past too fast. Do you ever feel this? And somehow summer explodes all sorts of new ideas in my head – different ways to inspire generosity, to serve my clients, to help YOU have more […]
“The secret to success is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problem.” —T. Harv Eker Some days it seems everything is a challenge. Major gift calls cancel, the data base fails, you get bad […]
Ever had a volunteer’s passion go to unhelpful extremes? Let me share a tale from my trip to South Africa. We were told to bring candy, stickers and soccer balls, if we wished, for the fifty or so 1st to 8thgraders at a small black school near our safari camp. So with candy, stickers and […]
My son, RJ, just graduated from the UW Madison! Yep…we are bursting with pride and spent a wonderful 4 days celebrating. In a few short weeks he’ll be off to Boulder, Colorado and a new job with Major League Baseball Advanced Media creating some sort of mobile app. A sweet job, indeed. WoHOO! At 23, […]
It was a whirlwind four-conference speaking tour at the AFP International Conference, NAYDO, AFP Genesee Valley and LeadingAge Iowa. Even the 5:45 am flights were AWESOME! (well that may be a bit of a stretch). I must share the most amazing surprise at the AFP Genesee Valley Conference– JOY cookies! The entire conference was themed […]
“Ambassadors ALL!” At my talk at the AFP International Conference in New Orleans, I kicked off with a TEST! “Stand up if you think it’s true, “Board members should not be pressured into giving or helping raise money.” I’d say it was about 50/50. Answer? True. More on that in a bit. Reconnecting with my […]
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