Posts tagged ‘fund raising’
Fundraiser’s 18-24 Month Churn
I’ve been in fundraising a long time. For as long as I can remember, we talk about the turnover in development staff – 18-24 months. Here’s my take:
Continue Reading October 8, 2015 at 10:01 am Barbara Talisman, CFRE Leave a comment
From a Donor Regarding Your Thank You Letters
A donors take on your thank you letter process.
Continue Reading October 6, 2015 at 10:12 am Barbara Talisman, CFRE Leave a comment
Fundcatching Conversion?
My question is what do we do with these gifts and the donors who so quickly responded? There is an ongoing discussion about “converting” donors from reactive giving to ongoing support. I have always had a challenge with the term “converting.”
Continue Reading September 23, 2015 at 11:16 am Barbara Talisman, CFRE Leave a comment
Fundraising v Fundcatching
I had never heard the term fundcatching until a couple years ago, had you? So my question is, once we “catch” these gifts (because we have all received them) as professional fundraisers who are donor-centric in our work – what do we do?
Continue Reading September 21, 2015 at 11:12 am Barbara Talisman, CFRE 2 comments
High Net Worth Philanthropy Report 2014
The Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and U.S. Trust, Bank of America just released the 2014 U.S. Trust Study of High Net Worth Philanthropy report.
Continue Reading October 22, 2014 at 12:54 pm Barbara Talisman, CFRE Leave a comment
Honesty about Being a Nonprofiteer
A nonprofit job can’t help you relieve debt – personal or from college. I don’t know your savings account will grow exponentially – depends on how you live or the standard of living you want/need to have.
Continue Reading October 20, 2014 at 11:06 am Barbara Talisman, CFRE Leave a comment
Infogram Organigrams – Visual Data for Storytelling
In the March 8 issue of The Chronicle of Philanthropy the front page article on visualizing data got my attention. I have to say – how well we share our story has always been at the heart of fundraising success. Telling our story using graphics is a GREAT idea! Not that we weren’t doing it before – but the graphics were photos and I will agree really boring pie and bar charts.
Continue Reading March 12, 2012 at 10:08 am Barbara Talisman, CFRE Leave a comment
Capital Campaign Fatigue?
One of my nonprofit clients is in the stakeholder phase of a $15,000,000 capital campaign. They have been in campaign mode for more than 18 months. In the last six months they have raised more than $5,000,000! There is no campaign fatigue here and I wanted to share how we are working together to overcome challenges and keep the energy high.
Continue Reading September 12, 2011 at 10:00 am Barbara Talisman, CFRE Leave a comment
AFP International Fundraising Conference 2011- Monday Picks
In follow up to Part 1, I continue to highlight information before the conference starts. Hopefully some of this information will help you plan your conference experience live or via social media on line. In Part 1, I posted all the online channels AFP will be using.
Continue Reading March 15, 2011 at 9:12 am Barbara Talisman, CFRE 2 comments
