Posted by: Eric Streiff
This past weekend I was doing a lot of thinking on the long road from Saint Louis to Chicago – five full hours of blissful thinking time – and I was thinking back to a previous blog post regarding how nonprofits need to focus more on the changed lives and the impact they are making in the world and less on the financials.
More precisely, I was lamenting how many people in the nonprofit field don’t “measure” the success ...
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Many of you may not know this, but I was a commercial photographer in an earlier life before my foray into the nonprofit world over ten years ago – making my living by taking pictures for national advertisements in collaboration with advertising agencies and publishers. It was a great time for sure, for both myself and my family – and I felt inspired during those years, and continue to be inspired, by one particular photographer named Henri Cartier-Bresson.
He is simply ...
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Why and what is a Donor Centric philosophy?
Unless you have been completely out of touch with reality the world has changed over the last several years. It just isn’t the world we grew up in and the game has changed significantly – globally, domestically and locally – not just for for-profits but also for nonprofits.
The donor’s choices have increased, their expectations have increased, and their access to information about your nonprofit has increased.
In the process of all ...
Continue Reading →The question on everyone’s mind is will the recession and global events such as the Japan earthquake and the tsunami affect your nonprofit in a negative way? The world seems to be unraveling doesn’t it?
Consequently, there is the possibility fundraising initiatives will be compromised by the uncertainty in the world brought on natural disasters in conjunction with the insecurity of the financial markets both here in the US and abroad. It seems that every day there is news that is either ...
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