Zach Clark answers two great questions addressing the metrics of evaluating the success of your development program and evaluating the use of time and focus of your development staff.
How to Lead Your Board to Move Things Forward
Are you a leader who is frustrated with your board? It may be that you simply need to focus your board on the right things. It’s so important to guard against an unhealthy obsession on your board members for fundraising. While we all know that boards are highly effective when they get involved in raising […]
Position Yourself for Major Giving in the Second Half of the Year
What are you doing RIGHT NOW to position yourself for exceptional and significant giving? In this video, Zach Clark, Founder of Development and Leadership Coaching, shares three things that you can be doing right now to not only ensure that you have success in giving the first half of the year, but to also position […]
Online Surprises and Fundraising Essentials You Need to Know
What percentage of all gifts are being made online and what is all the hype about? You might be surprised by the answer to this question. In this video, Zach Clark, Founder of Development and Leadership Coaching, speaks on the topic of online communications. He talks about the context in which you are trying to […]
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.
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.
Re-Energize Your Efforts to Raise Money
There are specific steps you can take to bring new energy and momentum to your giving between now and the next “pivot point” in the calendar year.
How To Hold On To Your Donors
Ministries and non-profit organizations bleed out former donors time and time again. However, givers live to give again. Therefore, retaining our givers should be paramount. The question we must ask ourselves is, “How do we retain our givers?” Learn key principles to assist you in retaining your donors.
The Most Effective Way to Waste Your Time
Email is best utilized as a tool in our arsenal. Not our primary leadership method.
Rapid Success Projects: Lead Your Team to Quick Results
It is easy to get lost in the daily grind of your duties and to ultimately lose momentum. If your team could use a kick-start to rebuild and regain momentum, Rapid Success Projects can assist you in getting back on track to achieving real results. This video will provide you with a framework for reengaging and leading your […]
Do More with Less
The expectations placed on people working in ministry organizations continue to climb. Take a moment to learn how to begin doing more with less.
Steps To Better Hiring
Making the wrong hiring choice can be one of the most damaging decisions for your ministry. Today, I want to talk to you about one of my favorite topics: better hiring for ministry organizations.
How to Use Goals and Milestones
How do you use goals and milestones to actually change people’s behavior and move them toward action?
Grow Your Giving Network
How do you grow your network? How do you grow your reach? How do you grow the number of people you are talking to about getting involved and advancing your vision for your ministry?
Demystify Your Future
If you are a leader, someone that God has placed in a position of influence, you have people following you. You are helping them move toward a vision, a desired outcome for their lives, or the impact of your ministry organization.
Stop Being Overwhelmed By Fundraising
If you are anything like me and most other ministry leaders, you are focused on how you can move things forward. But, we struggle to keep all the plates spinning and the pressure seems to increase the close we slide to December.
How To Ask For Money Without Hating Yourself
This is one of the most important things I could ever share with you. I’ve noticed that most leaders hate the idea of having to ask people for money.
While there are a few folks who have chosen “fundraising” as their profession, most leaders, if they are honest would choose to move the work of raising money off their plate if they could.
Get Momentum Before the Year Ends
God has placed numerous people around you, in your community, that could have a tremendous impact on the vision for your ministry.
So, why aren’t they?
Take Annual Giving to the Next Level
I frequently receive calls from leaders asking for input on their annual fund letters. The questions usually center around the tactics of letter writing, subject lines, social networking, and email blasts. While taking specific steps to ask for annual giving is important, it’s not what ultimately determines your success in raising funds for your ministry.
How to Raise More Money in the Next 90 Days
One of the areas I’m most often asked about is how to raise more money. I put together a short and free video teaching on a specific method you can use to unleash new momentum and learn how to raise more money in the next 90 days.