I suspect a number of folks are still enjoying the holiday, so this week’s post is short and sweet. It’s a link to a brief but very informative article from The Nonprofit Times website on how to approach “the ask” when it comes to major gifts fundraising. Enjoy!.. Read more »
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Endings and Beginnings
Regardless of where your organization is in terms of your fiscal year, you can’t ignore the fact that the calendar year is quickly coming to a close. And even if your fiscal year doesn’t end for another 6 months, you might consider that yourdonors’ fiscal year – the one determined by the IRS – ends on….. Read more »
Inoculations (It’s about your data, I promise)
As part of my preparations for a service learning trip to a faraway place, I recently scheduled a trip to the Travel Clinic. There I received vaccinations for a whole host of unpleasant illnesses. While ruminating over the state of my arm and all its new holes, along with the greatly increased number of pills….. Read more »
Gift Entry Time-Saver
Do you find yourself entering the same bits of data over and over when entering donations? If so, there are a couple things you can do to save yourself quite a bit of time. If you are in the middle of an appeal where most of the donations are in response to the appeal, you….. Read more »
Fun in the Sun?
On the day I am writing this, it reached 63 degrees here in our corporate headquarters in Rochester MN. Why is this news, you ask? Because it’s the first week in December and snow is far more typical at this time of year. That must be why they call it ‘Tropical Minnesota.’ Generally at this….. Read more »