Make Failure Your Fuel

As summer and my birthday approach this time of year I am always reminded of how we are constantly afforded the opportunity for new beginnings.  Graduations, summer adventures, old chapters closing and new doors opening.  Yes, it’s a romantic view of our time rotating around the sun and no surprise, I’m a sucker for commencement [...]

By |2024-10-04T15:46:48-07:00May 29th, 2018|Fundraising coach, Nonprofit fundraising|Comments Off on Make Failure Your Fuel

General Disruption

In the category of random and possibly inappropriate nicknames, I had a former boss who used to refer to me in public as “General Disruption.”   She gave me the nickname because, as she put it, I was there to disrupt the ways in which the organization was thinking about and tactically fundraising.  Of course, [...]

By |2024-10-04T15:46:48-07:00May 21st, 2018|Fundraising coach, Nonprofit fundraising|1 Comment

Love: The Heart of Fundraising

About three years ago my life was crumbling.  My marriage was over, I was trapped in a job I didn’t love, was working insane hours for a very difficult person and it was taking everything I had to hold it all together - for me and for my two kids.  I was laying up in [...]

By |2024-10-04T15:46:48-07:00May 10th, 2018|Fundraising coach, Nonprofit fundraising|13 Comments
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