The fundraising landscape is changing rapidly and the challenges facing many of today’s nonprofit organizations have never been greater. We must become smarter in how we approach fundraising.
In this week’s review, we wanted to take some time to highlight a few of our most popular posts and our favorite insights from around the web when it comes to taking a more intelligent approach to fundraising.
3 Ways to Become Smarter Fundraisers
- How to Overcome Fundraising Challenges by Balancing Art and Science. Learning the art of fundraising, the science of fundraising, and how to balance the two is the only way nonprofit leaders can overcome the unique challenges we face in today’s fundraising world.
- How to Get In the Mind of the Donor: Changing Retention Realities Through Strategic Stewardship. One of the smartest things we can do as fundraisers is spend time thinking about what it’s like to be a donor. In this resource, Alison Lewis Lodhi shares some practical ways you can go “inside the mind” of your donors as a way to improve your strategy and increase your results.
- Asking why by Seth Godin. What’s one practical way we can become smarter fundraisers? Seth Godin explains the reason you should ask “why?” again… and again… and again.