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OCTOBER 17, 2022

And when we go, what will we see? He summarizes it as, (1) “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day” (2) “into a region of supernatural wonder:” (3) “fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won:” (4) “the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.”[1].

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

And this was just a way to honor the folks that are doing the work, and to give ourselves the space and time to think about the work and the luxury of being able to reflect on what success looks like. This is what winning looks like. And I want you to look around the room, and this is what a winning team looks like.”

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JULY 17, 2023

The key question is, “What do people like me do?” That “yes” comes in response to a challenge. 11] One described how “you” could use a charitable gift annuity. To learn more, I next tested three more pictures: Younger Sara Middle-aged Sara, and Older Sara. What happened? Examples are powerful. The result?

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The guiding sage knows what the charity can deliver. Delivering the hero’s journey is about what happens after the gift. Later, the donor is promised a heroic journey at the next ask. What happens? A 2018 U.S. study reported the giving behavior of 11 million donors.[10] A 2018 U.S. That depends.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

What do we feel? What amount would be easy for this donor?”) Cranking through enough ‘no’s’ just gets me closer to the next ‘yes.’ Flip the script But what if the story was different? What if the “no” wasn’t the end of the story? What if the “no” was an essential part of the story? But this comes only later.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

The next set of article postings will be the most practical in the series. But first, it helps to know what we’re doing. But first, it helps to know what we’re doing. What does a charity offer that the donor wants? What do new fundraisers really want to know? What’s the magic phrase that will make donors give?”.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

So, let’s look at some hard stuff when it comes to fundraising. There’s a difference between what’s fun and what’s important. You spend the next two years working with 100 donors. You spend the next two years working with 100 donors. 4] What feels lik e losing actually wins. What if we don’t have any?

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

The next step is to ask questions that connect with the donor’s identity and define a personally meaningful victory. Next are about two hundred examples quoted from top fundraisers. 4] “What first brought your attention to our organization?”[5] 7] “Can you tell me what brought you to [this charity] in the first place?”[8]

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MARCH 27, 2022

The next store offers a 50% refund when you buy two cans of Coke for $1 each. The next store offers “buy one get three free.” What do people do? What happens? What happened? Be careful what system you trigger. Willingness to help, and [11]. But they’re important in weird ways. 2] The math is the same.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

Stuck in the middle – what can the fundraiser do? But what about the fundraiser who wants to do more? It’s how you get what you want. We explain how it gets them what they want. So, what difference does it make to you? You get what you want. When it’s spent to pay for tuition, what does it become?

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

Your midwife asks you about how you’ve been feeling physically and emotionally , what you’ve been eating , and how much rest you have been getting. Your partner calls the midwife , who reminds you what active labor looks and feels like , and how to know when it is time to come in. They welcome your whole family to the visit.

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JULY 24, 2023

This comes from a private, internal identity. It comes from a moral identity. But both players must decide to give or not before knowing what the other will do. But what about practical reality? What about fundraising? 28] The “one big thing” in fundraising remains the same: Advance the donor’s hero story.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

Though it has looked different from one epoch to the next, throughout this country’s labor history—from chattel slavery to the industrial age to the information age—White men with institutional power and authority have effectively shaped systems both to protect and propel the interests of White people.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

3 In this book, I explored what happens to host communities when wealthy nonprofit organizations control exorbitant amounts of land in our cities and towns. Speaker after speaker offered moving testimonies of what it means when one of a city’s biggest landholders is a tax-exempt nonprofit like Yale University.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Culture Shift We knew that real climate solutions had to come from Black people, Indigenous people, people of color on the ground who had firsthand experience with climate impacts and could propose solutions that would meet this existential challenge. We weren’t buying it. Whether it was their overt racism or microaggressions, we clashed.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own?

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. What we have here is the kernel of a potent agenda for “non-reformist reforms.” The tides were turning. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy?

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