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A fundraising checklist: what Italian fundraisers look like?

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Patrice Simonnet

For sure, you would be able to answer this if you had participated at the 5th Italian “Festival del Fundraising” during the second week of May 2012. Three days, around 600 fundraisers, more than 20 sponsors and a lot of sun. The annual meeting is held at Castrocaro, a little town located next to Bologna, strategically between Roma and Milano.

Many, many, many sessions and activities and no time to rest if you came like many of us to learn by sharing. So even though you are in an historical 4-star hotel and have free access to thermal facilities, there is little chance for you to come back home without a huge need to rest. I am sure that every attendee will also have taken back a huge checklist full of technics to explore or to test: online, offline, integration of channels, new services and many ideas from abroad considering the number of foreign speakers that joined the event.

So let me try to review what are the trends that emerged without being too descriptive…let’s hope the other 599 people will write comments and identify their best moments. So here we go: Continue reading →

Posted in ENG, individuals, new media, opinion | 3 Comments

Heb uw naaste lief!

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Peter Goudkamp

Een aantal dagen geleden was ik op de jaarvergadering van Partos. Voor wie het niet weet, “Partos is de branchevereniging van Nederlandse organisaties werkzaam in internationale samenwerking.” Een club van betrokken mensen met leden die alles behalve hun eigen belang op de eerste plaats stellen; waarom zou je anders bij een organisatie als bijvoorbeeld Plan, Pax Christi of bijvoorbeeld Dorcas werken denk ik dan maar. Voor het geld hoef je het niet te doen. Continue reading →

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The 7 Bad Habits of Insanely Productive People

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Margaux Smith

Exactly one year ago, I read a blog post that hit me like a punch in the gut. It was Austin Kleon’s How to Steal Like an Artist, and it got right down and spoke directly to everything I was struggling with at the time. I was about to finish grad school and was terrified that I didn’t have what it would take to make it out in the ‘real’ world. Simply reading Kleon’s words changed my whole outlook. I immediately wrote in my own blog about how it made me feel. That post then turned into my first TEDx talk two months later. The reaction from nearly everyone was one of complete understanding. It turned out I wasn’t the only one with those fears and insecurities – I was just finally saying it out loud. Continue reading →

Posted in ENG, human resources, strategy | 3 Comments

Delivering a baby, delivering a budget

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Rebecca Davies

One morning last December I went to outer space and plucked a star. We named her Beatrix.

She’s our first, and I’d not had much exposure to newborns before. Even less on how to care for one.

Bea and I’ve taken many long walks these past five months (moves management, verily) and I’ve had time to think back over my twenty-year fundraising career, and if there was anything there that could teach me to be a parent. More interestingly to my colleagues and team, how would giving birth and nurturing a newborn shape my leadership style back at work? Continue reading →

Posted in ENG, high value donors, human resources | 2 Comments

How do you keep good people at a nonprofit organization?

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Mike Johnston

How do you keep good people at a nonprofit organization? With limited budgets and the reality of high turnover in our sector, what can you do to help keep great staff.

At hjc we have come up with 9 key deliverables from the company, to our staff:

1. Give them a professional development budget that THEY control. It’s about respect and autonomy when it comes to learning and improving. Every staff member gets $1,250 dollars (plus travel) to go to conferences; attend webinars; and purchase other training and books. It’s motivating and effective for us to give them complete control over their own personal PD budget.

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Posted in ENG, human resources | 5 Comments

6 Things you get with friendraising

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Vera Peerdeman

“Friendraising is raising money from your friends and family.” This is just one of the replies I got, when I recently asked app. 200 Dutch fundraising colleagues to send me their definition of ‘friendraising’. Well, if this is what friendraising is about, I guess the birthdays of fund- and friendraisers soon will be awfully quiet.

Fortunately, a lot of colleagues used better definitions. Myself, I like to use this one: friendraising is building sustainable relationships with persons, foundations and corporations, in order to get to know them better, and to (co)create a wide variety of ways to support your organization. Of course, a result of friendraising can be that you receive money. But if it’s up to me, it can be so much more. Let me sum up just 6 things for you. Continue reading →

Posted in donor service, ENG, high value donors, individuals, strategy | 2 Comments

We’ll keep the lot – thank you

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Graeme Russell

There has been recent news stories about charity collectors lately, some of these have reached the global ‘ear’ others have only been covered in the country of origin.

The latest to hit global news has been about ‘chuggers’, a quaint term for ‘charity muggers’. They’re the people out on the streets raising awareness, funds and subscriptions; who bail up people, use all manner of technique to ‘sell’ their story to the public.