Is Your Consultant Right for You? Five Tips for Finding the Right Fit and Maximizing Results
You’ve likely heard the old joke—a consultant is someone who borrows your watch and tells you what time it is. Ouch. Consultants are often right up there with lawyers when it comes to getting an undeserved bad rap. Or maybe you’ve experienced the opposite…your board...
Tell Your Story With Power and Purpose: 8 Steps to Crafting a Compelling Nonprofit Impact Report
Your impact report, also known as an annual report, is a powerful tool for your nonprofit organization to demonstrate the difference it makes in its community or cause. It helps build trust, engage stakeholders, and secure ongoing support. A good impact report...
Fundraisers! Fall in Love–With Your Database
By Christine N. Kuriah, My Philanthropy Team Every fundraising professional knows what it’s like to have a love/hate relationship with a database. With these ten simple steps maybe you, too, can find happily ever after. Security: make sure that you have checks and...
Gratitude in Action: Celebrating Your Donors’ Generosity
Recently, a client of My Philanthropy Team (MPT) asked one of our Philanthropy Specialists about the best way to say “thank you” to donors. Despite operating without fundraising staff, the organization had been receiving donations in the mail for years, including...
Fundraising Agility: How to Stay Flexible in an Ever-Changing Environment
What’s one under-rated skill of a top-notch fundraiser? Agility! Agility requires a combination of balance, coordination, speed, strength, and endurance. You might be thinking, “Great, so what does that have to do with fundraising?” Well, fundraising is constantly...
Four Strategies to Establish a Supportive Development Team Culture
Even before the pandemic, high staff turnover and low retention within development teams presented significant challenges for nonprofits. Now, amid the Great Resignation where people are seeking work that better aligns with their personal goals and lifestyle,...
Meeting You Where You Are
When I started My Philanthropy Team, I knew I wanted a company that would meet our non-profit clients where they were. As a former chief development officer for many years, I knew that offering “just” consulting wasn’t enough. I wanted to provide a service that not...
How to Prepare a Winning Campaign Case Statement
Is your nonprofit seeking a big investment for a special project or maybe planning a capital campaign? Whether you’re looking to upgrade facilities, launch a seed fund for new initiatives, build organizational capacity, or create an endowment, scaling your impact will...
Fundraising Trends to Watch for in 2023
Over the past few years, the global pandemic has deeply impacted the world of philanthropy in many ways, setting the stage for a flurry of fundraising shifts and innovations that are here to stay for the long-term. Nonprofits have pivoted to adapt to the changing...
Developing a Donor Communications Plan for Your Organization
Everything we do as fundraisers relies on the power of communications - grant proposals, pitch presentations, annual appeal letters, sponsorship requests, social media campaigns - the list goes on. In fact, many nonprofit organizations have fundraising and...
