by Mena Gainpaulsingh | May 30, 2017 | Case for Support, Database, Fundraising, Stewardship, Strategic Planning
In last week’s post, I shared some of the various reasons why your fundraising bucket might be leaking. This week I’m delighted to be joined by Sarah McKinnon to provide you with some answers on how you can go about fixing your bucket! Understand your donor data Your...
by Mena Gainpaulsingh | May 23, 2017 | Case for Support, Fundraising, Major gifts, Philanthropy, Stewardship, Strategic Planning
This week, I’m talking about leaky buckets. Fundraising buckets to be precise. Fundraising is one of the challenges that keeps many Executive Directors of charities up at night. As the competition for funding increases and as donors become more focused on the...
by Mena Gainpaulsingh | May 9, 2017 | Database, Fundraising, Research
We are thrilled this week to have Joseph Conley back to delve further into the use and misuse of fundraising databases. Thank you Joseph, over to you! In my last post I discussed important things to consider when deciding what fundraising database your...
by Mena Gainpaulsingh | May 1, 2017 | Fundraising, Sponsorship
This week, I’m sharing a post that my good friend, Chris Baylis, at the Sponsorship Collective, wrote after I shared with him a conversation I had with one of the potential sponsors of one of my clients. While Chris’s article talks about sponsorship specifically, it...