Fundraising Friday | March 6, 2015

March 6, 2015

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What’s in my Inbox | A terrific welcome email from Audubon.

Fundraiser Grrl and major gifts fundraiser extraordinaire, Rory Green, with Knowing These 5 Conversation Secrets Will Make Your Major Gifts Fundraising Amazing.

In this week’s What’s in my Mailbox, you’ll see a stellar membership renewal.

I’m in the midst of my friend, Ken Burnett’s new book, Storytelling Can Change the World (highly recommend). In The five stages of transformational nonprofit storytelling – Rose’s story, you’ll see a beautiful email appeal that knocks it out of the park.

Practicing Relationship Fundraising. New from our friends Jeff and Richard at Veritus.

Bloomerang with This biz has a better email thank you than most nonprofits.

Did you remember to get buy-in from your finance department for your monthly giving program? Erica Waasdorp.

The Agitator with 6 Habits of Fundraising Excellence Plus 2 (what would you add?)

‘Love Has No Labels’ The PSA is a beautiful ode to humanity.

Lynn Wester with a reminder: Is it 1952 or 2015?

How diverse is your board? And what does diversity mean? Vu with another brilliant post Waiting for unicorns: The supply and demand of diversity and inclusion. Look for us to begin to delve into this topic with a spring SDS training.

Do we choose to invest in a culture of generosity and gratitude? A Culture of Scarcity | A Guest Post by Jon Hardie.

Fun stuff: Have you ever wondered what Disney Fundraising Princess you’d be? Rory has put together this fun quiz over on Buzzfeed (I’m Princess Aurora the Planned Giving Director ;).

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In 2014, I began a process that would teach me more about fundraising than any AFP workshop or webinar: Nonprofit Online Fundraising | Does Your Organization Pass the Test? How do you measure up? Have you been a donor to your own organization?

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