Greetings! Today, I want to welcome back Amy Eisenstein.  Amy has posted here at Step by Step Fundraising once before.  If you haven’t had a chance to read that article, I highly recommend clicking here to do so. Today, Amy has returned with another very insightful and helpful post about identifying new donors for your […]

In the first part of this series on volunteer policies, I started speculating on some of the causes why it’s so hard to get people to volunteer these days. I used my own kids’ swim team as an example of this sad phenomenon. I ended part one by asking the following question: Could we be […]

I’ve read that the best blogs are those that are honest and reflect the real experiences of the blogger. So, in that spirit, I’m going to share some events that I have experienced in my own life during the last few weeks, related, of course, to the non-profit world. My three children belong to a […]

In the last installment of this series, I wrote about the first couple of ways that a team-building retreat can benefit your non-profit staff. Specifically, I gave these two reasons: Most people are not good communicators to begin with, so they need lots of instruction and practice A team-building retreat is a shared experience outside […]

Just recently, I wrote a different kind of article than what normally appears here on Step By Step Fundraising. It was an actual personal experience I had while leading a group of non-profit professionals through a day of team-building activities. The discoveries we made that day about the group were surprising and dramatic to me. […]

I had just given the group of 12 adults their instructions to put on their blindfolds, cinch them up tight, and take hold of a 50 foot length of rope. I could tell that some of them were pretty nervous. I told them their mission was to form as close to a perfect square as […]

In parts I & II of this article, I have listed six different goals that should be set at a community-wide non-profit summit meeting.  These goals so far are: Make a thorough introduction of each group and person that goes beyond the casual niceties of most meetings. Launch a brainstorming session that lists the problems […]