Fundraisers are sometimes accused of being prone to hyperbole. Yet to say we, as a society, have never had a year like 2020 would not be an overstatement. It seems that everywhere we turn, we can find evidence that the better angels of our collective nature have gone...

Thud. (Just sit with that for a moment.) This pandemic has hit us like a ton of bricks. It’s derailed us from our daily routines. If we’ve learned nothing else, we know that tomorrow is not a given. The very life and death nature of the virus has demanded that we...

With the mainstreaming of meditation and mindfulness practices, a yoga studio on almost every corner, and the growing popularity of “wisdom-based business”

Five Tips for Taming the Imposter We’ve all asked ourselves this question at one time or another. Or maybe someone has asked it of us. The truth is, most of us, way down in the pit of our stomachs, have a deep-seated fear that we really don’t know as much as people...

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.

True to our US culture, many business and personal development authors, gurus, and other self-proclaimed thought leaders stand on a platform and try to convince us to “think big” and not to settle for “playing small.”

The day of the Loma Prieta earthquake, October 17, 1989, I was working at the Exploratorium in San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. The Marina District was one of the areas hardest hit…

I know. I know. You’ve been to so many fundraising seminars that you often know the punchline before the presenter has even started. In fact, you’ve probably presented your own fair share of workshops…

My very first fundraising job, fresh out of college, was with the Exploratorium, an uber cool San Francisco treasure featuring hands-on…