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…
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…
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. …
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”…
I just talked to my friend who is also my personal banker and is in charge of giving for his bank in my home town. He is a great guy who cares about philanthropy. He has been supportive of me in the community. In our conversation, I told him that the Giving USA Report had…
The myth that small budget nonprofit organization cannot or should not pursue multimillion dollar campaigns is exactly that: a myth.The size of your nonprofit organization’s operating budget does not dictate its fundraising prowess.How do I know? The nonprofits who have been successful:A battered women’s shelter with an annual budget of $90,000 raises $2.1 millionA youth…
This was not the headline of the Chronicle of Philanthropy or the news release issued by the group announcing the study. Their headline was along the lines of, “Two thirds of Americans to give less or the same in 2010.” If you read their articles, they say that 53% of Americans were going to give…
Our instincts would tell us that million dollar gifts surely can’t be given as frequently as they were before the market and economy setbacks. But responsible research isn’t based on instincts. Patrick Rooney, who heads the The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University—an organization to which I have endowed a chair, serve on the Board,…
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