Fundraising is Embarrassing
The Original Sin That Poisons Everything Else
If you believe fundraising is embarrassing, you won't get good at it. Full stop. You won't invest in learning how to do it well. You won't practice. And your donors will feel it.
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Everything You Believe About Fundraising is Wrong
9 Mistakes That Are Killing Your Results
A few years ago, I walked into a small-town charity that was convinced it had hit its ceiling. The board was exhausted. The volunteers were burnt out. Within a year, everything changed. Not the town. Not the cause. The beliefs.
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Everything You Believe About Fundraising is Wrong: 9 Mistakes That Are Killing Your Results
A nine-part series dismantling the beliefs that quietly destroy nonprofit fundraising, one at a time.
- 0 Introduction: Everything You Believe About Fundraising is Wrong
- 1 "Fundraising is an embarrassing, unfortunate necessity."
- 2 "If we do good work, the money will come."
- 3 "We need a big event."
- 4 "We have to give people something in return."
- 5 "Fundraising is complicated."
- 6 "We've already asked. We can't ask again."
- 7 "That's the development office's job."
- 8 "The ED has more important things to do."
- 9 "The board's job is governance, not fundraising."