The opportunities we wouldn’t have wished for
"The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets." — Baron Rothschild. Eventually, Team Human will prevail against COVID-19. The question is how…
How to help your fundraising graduate from good to great
First in a series of five If you’re like me, you have been invited to many webinars lately, most of them focused on how social…
Nonprofit Mailers: Keep Calm and Send Mail
Reports of USPS Shutting Down by June are Premature Yesterday, TNPA members flagged a couple media articles that faulted the CARES Act for not appropriating…
One Household’s COVID-19 Donor Experience
Guest blog post by Katie Valvo, Sr. Account Director, Epsilon These views are my own. Sharing an anecdotal case study of one household. For those…
Coronavirus: Planning for Impact
"Is anyone changing their fundraising plans in response to the coronavirus concerns?" That was a question we were hearing from TNPA members. We conducted a…
Radical change is here to stay: Lean into it.
(First in a series.) All of us who work in nonprofits are focused on metrics: Net revenue, key performance indicators (KPI), long-term value (LTV). With good reason…
Leadership Learnings
Just because we’re experts at fundraising doesn’t mean we’re great managers or leaders. Yet most of us who excel in our profession end up with…
Fundraiser and Proud: Built on Trust
There is good reason to stand tall and take pride in being a fundraiser. Not to get all self-righteous, but we are the engine that…
Three Things Nonprofit Leaders can learn from Gardening
As someone who works in philanthropy, you likely wear multiple hats, but is one of them a gardening hat? In my 10 years at the…
