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The Eight Principles of Sustainable Fundraising® for the Eight Nights of...
by Jonah Halper, MPA, Founding Partner of ALTRUICITY and Author of Date Your Donors Hanukkah, according to popular belief, is a celebration of a Menorah in the Jewish Temple that miraculously stayed...
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Parables for Radically Rethinking Your Philanthropy During Passover or Any...
By: Steven L. Meyers, Chief Content Office, The Eight Principles Ideas can scale in unexpected ways. A few years ago, I wrote a riff on the Classic Passover story of the Four Children. Today it...
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Seek and You (Won’t) Find
Fundraisers are always seeking. The question is, what? Well money, you say. Yes, but. OK, more of it. Yes, but. What far too many fundraisers are seeking is a miracle. The secret method that will...
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How Much Tech–Fundraising Training
We live in the era of high performance tech. Everyone’s getting on board. Even nonprofits. Or, should I say, especially nonprofits. Your fundraising training never prepared you for this. The...
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Dispensing Joy–Fundraising Training
Fundraisers are trained to raise money. And they do. The fundraising training they receive (if they receive any at all) is focused on money. The more the better. There’s a problem with this...
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The Skunk at the Gala–Strategic Fundraising
Since you think you’ve heard the all the objections to holding your annual gala and you believe you’ve answered all of them, I challenge you to work around this one! The granddaddy of strategic...
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The Cost of Hassle
Nonprofits worry about cost all the time. From board members to staff members, everybody’s focused on “cost”. For some organizations the only inviolate rule is “Don’t spend money.” While everyone’s...
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Being Less Stupid
Let’s face it. We’ve all made needless mistakes in our lives. Mistakes and even outright failures can be building blocks for eventual success. Whether they are constructive or destructive depends...
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Bucking the Flow
Growing up I had a couple of courses in wood shop. I learned life lessons in that class as well as how to work with wood effectively. The life lessons I’ll save for another time. One thing I learned...
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Taking Control
The only way to get things done is to take control of the situation and move forward. Success may be incremental. However, for sure you get nowhere if you’re waiting for something to happen. From the...
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