Too many times, I see boxes of beautiful collateral materials for events, marketing, outreach or fundraising campaigns happily living on the floors of agency storage rooms and offices. Thousands of dollars worth of materials never see the light of day. Are they helping to move the organization's mission forward?
One of our client's annual giving campaign has already achieved 95% of goal and the campaign still has five months to come to full fruition. Our assigned Project Partners project manager has done a terrific job directing this initiative, coaching and guiding staff and volunteers, who are very excited about the accomplishment, as you can imagine. How did this happen?
Are you working with a board, committee or task force that is raising money for an initiative or for your organization? Are these volunteers sometimes hesitant to actually make the ask of prospective donors?
I regularly work with nonprofit executives and community leaders to advance important community causes. I'm hearing a universal theme--that each organization is stretched, with too much to do and not enough time to do it. From my perspective, I see a need to go "back to the basics" from an organizational standpoint.
