I’m very close to finishing my preparations for next week’s Donor Development Bootcamp. I’m looking forward to seeing you face to face during our time together! BUT…I’m needing your input at this point. Before I finalize all the remaining pieces, I want to make sure we’ve done our best to prepare and cover each component […]
Prepare for Our Time Together at the Van Lunen Center
I’m very close to finishing my preparations for the sessions on Advancement and Fund Development Strategies for the upcoming Van Lunen Fellows Conference. I’m looking forward to seeing you face to face during our time together! BUT…I’m needing your input at this point. Before I finalize all the remaining pieces, I want to make sure we’ve done […]
Four Ways You Can Do More With Less
The expectation placed upon both you and me in today’s economy is this: do more with less. To actually do more with less requires that you and I constantly reinvent ourselves and grow our own leadership capacity for our ministry organization. Here are four proven ways that I find always take me to the next […]
Masterclass: How to Have Record Giving in 2016
An online Masterclass and special resources to provide you a step-by-step approach to crafting your plan to grow generous giving.
Masterclass Follow-Up October 2015
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A Vision for Saving Lives or Changing Lives
The more you can accompany your vision with a profile that paints a picture of the life, the stronger you’re going to be in communicating your vision.
How to Avoid Burnout
Aligning Hearts with your Vision
Here’s the bad news: having vision is the easy part.
Growing a Culture of Giving: 5 Ways to Shoot Yourself in the Foot
Development is about long-term and sustainable relationships.
Quit Hating Yourself. Start Leading.
The currency you are after as a development leader is not money. What you are trying to grow is the currency of influence.
5 Steps to Better Hiring
How important is the next position you are seeking to fill? Does your hiring process reflect that importance?
The Importance of Clarifying Your Message
It is crucial to communicate your message clearly in order to share what in the world you are doing and why.
How to Shift from Busy to Effective
Why You Don’t Have Enough Donors
If you feel you are lacking prospects, connections, donors, volunteers, candidates for positions then you have a time-use problem, not an actual lack of people.
Kick-start Your Efforts to Raise Money
Learn how to re-energize your giving between now and the next milestone in your year. In this video, we will help you identify your next pivot point and discover how to energize giving to get to that next point.
Get Your Fundraising Unstuck
To help people understand the impact their giving can have you need a very clear development plan. A development plan helps you stay on message and communicate the series of steps that help people understand how their giving is fuel to move you forward.
I get so many questions about how to make craft a development plan. To help more leaders save time, energy, and money I’m making one of our audio seminars available for immediate purchase and digital access.
The teaching in this seminar is usually just available to our one to one coaching members but we’ve made it available now for single purchase as well.
Webinar: The New Fundraiser
To help people understand the impact their giving can have you need a very clear development plan. A development plan helps you stay on message and communicate the series of steps that help people understand how their giving is fuel to move you forward.
I get so many questions about how to make craft a development plan. To help more leaders save time, energy, and money I’m making one of our audio seminars available for immediate purchase and digital access.
The teaching in this seminar is usually just available to our one to one coaching members but we’ve made it available now for single purchase as well.
Screencast of Webinar: The New Fundraiser
Quite simply, this is an introduction to what leaders really need to know about raising money. My goal is to help overcome flawed notions about fundraising and give people skills and actionable strategies they can actually use to grow significant giving, whether they work with us through our coaching or not.
Casting Vision for Lives Changed
You can really only raise money for two things: saving lives or changing lives.
Do More With Less: Maximizing Your Value
One of the top challenges leaders face today is tight margins. Learn how to maximize the value of what you already have in terms of relationships, income and giving.