As a fundraiser, part of the deal is showing up. My clients know that on New Year’s Eve, I call each of them. If I get them, I offer them my best holiday wishes and cheer. If I don’t reach them, they get THE LECTURE.Believe me, you don’t want THE LECTURE.Here is the nice version.As…
Who?My life has been like most, built of one influence at a time. Jim Tangeman is one of those HUGE influences that began 41 years ago when he hired me as Dean of Students at Colby Community College at 21 years of age. He had just been appointed President of the six-year-old College at 39.He…
For many, June 30th is the end of their fiscal years. I want to take a moment to single out and recognize some of our clients that I work with personally. I can hear people saying, “Here we go, bragging again.” Okay, sure. But this isn’t about me. Many of the clients I work with…
Read that headline again: Gene Tempel—long time Executive Director of the Center on Philanthropy, currently Indiana University Foundation President—has returned to his favorite assignment. But this time he is there to organize what so many of us have dreamed of for so long: a School of Philanthropy.Congratulations to Gene.The Growing Philanthropy Award for Founding the…
Until this last recession, a fundraising professional’s average length of stay in a position was ridiculously short. I’ve wondered why that is. Is it because of other opportunities, termination, or a change of profession?Well, I am pleased to see a blog, Fighting Fundraiser Turnover: What Charities Can Do by Holly Hall of the Chronicle (May…
Dan Moore is a great friend of Kinetic and former senior executive with Guidestar and now the owner of his own consulting practice–cleverly called Dan Moore Consulting. Dan is the “go to” resource for an understanding of government regulation of both the fundraiser and the fundraising professional in America. I first met Dan at a…
Holidays give me time to ponder. I’m sure some of the Kinetic staff wish I wouldn’t think so much because I have a reputation of making more work for everyone. But this Thanksgiving, I didn’t think of more we needed to do to grow philanthropy. Instead, I was in a very reflective frame of mind. …
For now 11 years I have had the pleasure of being counsel to Harvesters – The Community Food Network for the 26 counties surrounding Kansas City. I have been very vocal about their outstanding CEO, great Chief Resource Officer and the young, strong Development Director and her cadre of fundraisers. They have been #1 in…
As an outspoken fundraiser, I have no choice—I have to address the NPR fundraising scandal. On the heels of an unscientific, online survey posted on the AFP website that was heralded as the ethics challenges facing the profession . . . well, maybe ethics are worse than I thought. Clearly stupidity is.I’ve earned a reputation…
After all the “Leave a Legacy” promotion in the past 20 years—the focus on planned gifts, and research on who gives them—the needle on realized gifts has barely budged. Perhaps it’s too early to judge this, but many of you know I have long been a critic of the planned giving profession’s focus on “gizmos”…
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