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Giving Tuesday Thoughts
#GivingTuesday is not a huge thing in associations – although the ASAE Foundation has done some nice work on social media drawing attention to their donors today (more than directly asking for...
View ArticleSteal This Idea!
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past 20 years, it’s that associations don’t always have all the answers. We definitely have some major advantages, not the least of which is that we are highly...
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Treat Members Equitably Not Equally
In the association world, we tend to want to treat all our members equally: nobody is more important or special than anyone else. That’s a noble impulse and helpful, up to point. After all, you don’t...
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Your Baby Is Ugly
One of the great things about being a consultant is that we get to tell people when their baby is ugly without them getting mad at us – hey, they’re PAYING us to tell them when their baby is ugly....
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Reduce Barriers to Entry
Just about every association I know of is struggling to recruit younger members (aka Millennials). Part of the reason for that is that we’re erecting barriers to entry rather than removing them. What’s...
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Don’t Get Lazy!!
Putting it all together, maybe the most important thing Sohini and I learned from fundraisers as we were researching Steal Like a Fundraiser (and as Sohini has worked with them over the past two...
View ArticleGrowth Strategies from Top Fundraisers
My Steal Like a Fundraiser: Innovations in Cause-Oriented Fundraising for Associationsco-author Sohini Baliga and I recently had the opportunity to talk with some smart people about the information in...
View ArticleGrowth Strategies from Top Fundraisers Q&A
In my last post, I shared the link to the webinar my Steal Like a Fundraiserco-author Sohini Baliga and I presented for Wild Apricot on March 21. Sohini and I got to as many questions as we could at...
View ArticleThe Ask Matters
About two weeks ago, DC’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, held a series of virtual budget engagement forums to share her draft budget for FY2022. The format her team chose was extremely clever. While waiting...
View ArticlePR Issues for Associations
I had the opportunity to attend a workshop of that same title yesterday morning put on by the local chapter of PRSA downtown. Our speakers included: Peter Panepento of the Chronicle of Philanthropy on...
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