How easy is it for you to find a story to tell? Whenever I talk to nonprofit professionals about storytelling, the thing that consistently stops many of them from telling stories is finding stories to tell. This is especially true...
There’s a story about two masons at work. When asked what they were doing, the first mason replied, “I’m laying bricks,” and the second said, “I’m building a cathedral.” Similarly, Kate (not her real name) had two recent encounters with...
Editor's Note: This interview originally appeared on the Wild Woman Fundraising website and is excerpted with permission. You can read the full interview here. Mazarine Treyz: This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising and I am so pleased today to be interviewing...
It's a fact that people donating to charity increasingly want to know that their donations are making a difference and that the organizations they donate to are spending their money well. Donors want to be sure that they are investing...
In part one of this series we took a look at sponsorship and some of the things holding back the small shop in that area. In this article, we are going to turn our attention to cause marketing for the...
Does your nonprofit have ambitious goals for 2016? Is telling more stories one of them? Many organizations are trying to figure out how to tell stories about their organization and (ideally) raise money with the stories they tell. This goal...
Sponsorship and cause marketing are essential components of any corporate fundraising strategy. If you aren’t doing sponsorship and cause marketing as part of your fundraising plan, you should be! The small shop, defined as less than three fundraisers or under...
Soon after the 2015 federal election, it became clear that it was no longer a question of if Syrian refugees would be coming to Canada, but when and how many. The fact that this would be the largest refugee resettlement...
NOTE: Want to learn more about how to prepare for a major gift request? We partnered with Anne Melanson and Carolyn Marshall from Bloom Non Profit Consulting Group for a free webinar on December 10, 2015. Register here: How to...
What is GivingTuesday? Most people know about Black Friday and Cyber Monday...but GivingTuesday was celebrated last week on December 1, 2015. It is a new Canadian movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Cyber Monday. The “Opening...
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