By Faith Montgomery, Vice President and Managing Director, Lindauer With contributions by Paula Fazli, Maureen Huminik, Chandra Montgomery, and Carmel Napolitano Hiring for a newly created role in your organization? Expanding your existing team? Learn how to prepare in advance and set yourself up for a successful search. Recruitment is
By Kaitlyn Kendall-Sperry, Senior Consultant, Benefactor Group Strategic planning—an essential activity for any nonprofit—is an opportunity to step back from everyday work and thoughtfully review: Where are we today? Where do we aspire to go? How will we get there? Done well, a strategic plan provides a flexible roadmap: one
By Jen Herrmann, Vice President, Graham-Pelton The labor market and economy have been turbulent in recent years for nonprofits, to say the least. Following the Great Resignation, employment data and overarching recession fears have sent mixed signals across the nonprofit sector. Employee retention has always been important, but today’s erratic
By Ted Grossnickle, Senior Consultant and Founder, Johnson, Grossnickle and Associates This month, JGA celebrates our 30th anniversary, which has us both reflective regarding where we’ve been and more importantly visualizing where we are headed in the future. It’s abundantly clear to all of us that the ways in which
By Bonnie Devlin, Managing Principal & Co-owner, Washburn & McGoldrick, LLC By Carla Willis, Managing Principal, Washburn & McGoldrick, LLC As we provide counsel to our clients, we delight in hearing the details of the campaign gifts they are closing, the steady growth of
By Marts&Lundy Reflecting on recent achievements in the burgeoning realm of inclusive philanthropy, Marts&Lundy Consulting Partner Maia McGill sees tremendous potential for growth in the field … and reminds philanthropy professionals to practice that most basic of fundraising skills: listening. To have a conversation Maia McGill, Marts&Lundy Consulting Partner and
By Laura Hutyra, CFRE, Vice President of M. Gale In today’s world, there are a lot of opinions about culture. It’s become quite the buzz word, and unfortunately some discussions even get ugly. However, one of the silver linings of the Covid pandemic was renewed focus and positive attention to
By Betsy Chapin Taylor, FAHP, CEO, Accordant At the heart of every successful nonprofit organization lies a high-functioning board of directors. Boards serve as champions of an organization’s mission, stewards of its resources and architects of its strategic direction. Boards provide essential oversight, guidance and support to elevate the organization’s
By Emily Zacek, Copywriter, DonorPerfect It feels like the last decade has been one unprecedented event after another. From global pandemics and extreme inflation to war and civil unrest, it can be difficult to keep pace with how your colleagues and donors react to the world’s news. According to the
By Todd Baylis, Qgiv CEO. Todd Baylis founded Qgiv in 2007, a digital fundraising platform that provides user-friendly fundraising software to more than 6,500 across North America. It’s no secret the last few years have been challenging for the nonprofit sector. Nonprofit professionals face several challenges: declining donor numbers, dwindling
By Danielle Rice, Chief Technology Officer, Dunham+Company When someone says they do “digital”, a variety of things may come to mind – anything from social media content creation to website development to sending emails and texts. These channels are so common in marketing strategies these days that marketing professionals must
By Lori Collins, Senior Vice President, Giving Sciences, Truesense These Divisive Times There is much talk of the divisiveness in today’s political climate. There seems to be a lack of tolerance in accepting viewpoints that are different from one’s own – not just different from cultural norms. Historically, religion held
