I have always thought of September as the real start of the year. I know the calendar says January is the first month, but in my life, everything has always started in September. In fact, I make my New Year’s resolutions on September 1st! Of course, I give up on them by September 15th, but […]

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you certainly are aware of its founder, Sandra Sims. Sandra has written dozens of outstanding articles posted here and many high-quality e-books, which have helped non-profits all over the world earn more money. Jim Berigan has also written dozens of fundraising articles on this site, as […]

Over the course of the last several months, there have been a number of excellent guest writers who have agreed to share their experience, their knowledge, and their wisdom with you, the readers of Step By Step Fundraising. I hope you have learned a great deal from these men and women and that you have […]

Each month, at the end of the month, I like to take this one blog post to share with you all of the other articles either a handful of excellent guest authors or I have written for the FastTrack Fundraising family of blogs. Some people may just check out one or two of these three […]

Recently, my son applied for a scholarship. On the questionnaire he had to fill out, he was asked why he thought he was more deserving than other students to receive this financial gift. We struggled with that question, more than any of the others, because we both know that there is always someone more “deserving” […]

I am very happy to welcome back guest author Betsy Baker!  Besty is the President of  YourGrantAuthority.com. She has earned more than ten million dollars in grant funding and continues to be a grant writing consultant for nonprofits. She is best known for her plain-language instructional guidance and offers both ebook instruction and one-on-one coaching […]

I’d like to welcome back Gayle Thorsen (pictured at left) to the Step By Step Fundraising Blog.  Gayle has been kind enough to share with us one of her recent articles from her blog ImpactMax. Gayle has been in the nonprofit communications world for more than 25 years, the last 12 as the communications head […]