How many small nonprofits best fundraise during good times and bad? Learn more from Bobbie Donahue, veteran fundraiser and faculty member at The Fund Raising School. Bill Stanczykiewicz (BS): if you’re a nonprofit that has a budget of less than $1,000,000, you’re not small. You’re actually typical, and there are specific fundraising techniques that you… Read more »
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Board recruitment lessons from Dr. Gene Tempel
Need to recruit more board members? Read a transcription of a podcast produced by The Fund Raising School, narrated by Bill Stanczykiewicz, assistant dean for external relations and director of The Fund Raising School, and Dr. Gene Tempel, founding dean emeritus of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Bill Stanczykiewicz (BS): Where does fundraising start?… Read more »
Purposeful boards, powerful fundraising
As a professional musician, Dr. Pamela Murchison has experience playing flute in several orchestras and teaching music to individuals and in university settings. In 2007, she began playing with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra in Charleston, West Virginia, and fell in love with the Charleston community. When a position as vice president of development for… Read more »
From politics to philanthropy: the making of a master’s alum
Eric Richards did not originally intend to go into philanthropy. The Franklin College graduate and local Hoosier believed that he wanted to go into politics. However, when a unique opportunity arose his senior year of college, he switched directions. Deeply involved in his fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha, Richards was asked if he wanted to become… Read more »