by Nancy Rieves | Donors, Leadership, Message, Nonprofits, Philanthropy
Lessons Learned from Giving Tuesday Watch the video here! There are a number of lessons learned from Giving Tuesday each year. While giving to several nonprofits as a test one year, I received varying responses and degrees of gratitude. I was drawn in by some...
by Nancy Rieves | Donors, Fundraising, Leadership, Nonprofits, Philanthropy, Productivity, Time Management
Nonprofits, is #GivingTuesday Where to Spend your Time? Watch the video here! Do you feel guilty not participating in #GivingTuesday? When I met Jenny at a local coffee shop, she was frazzled. As a very successful development director in her mid-career, Jenny is...
by Nancy Rieves | Donors, Fundraising, Leadership, Nonprofit Funding, Nonprofits, Philanthropy
Donor Retention: How to Keep the Donors you Have Do you have a donor retention plan? Let’s face it – the way we interact with donors going forward will be different from in the past. No doubt, you have to show your supporters how much you care about them. Certainly,...
by Nancy Rieves | Donors, Fundraising, Leadership, Nonprofits, Philanthropy
Nonprofit Executive Director and Director of Development: The Relationship? For nonprofit organizations, there is no internal relationship more important than that between the executive director and director of development. I remember how frustrated I was when I...
by Nancy Rieves | Donors, Fundraising, Leadership, Nonprofits, Philanthropy
What Executive Directors Do Differently Second Time Around to be Successful What would nonprofit executive directors do differently second time around? If I could go back years ago to when I was first an executive director of a nonprofit, things would be done...
by Nancy Rieves | Donors, Fundraising, Leadership, Nonprofits, Philanthropy
Keep Money Coming In: Nonprofits’ Secret Sauce How can you survive and keep money coming in as a nonprofit development professional? When you can't meet people in person, it's easy to get stuck at the prospecting and relationship-building stages. That’s why I’m...
