The Fundraising Talent Podcast
Business:Non-Profit
I recently asked my friends Rebecca and David to join me to discuss an article that David had written about what leaders in higher education should expect of fundraising in the next year. Our conversation offered a whole new layer of meaning to David’s encouragement that advancement leaders need to be carefully thinking about renewal, re-engagement, and raising the bar. Perhaps what was profound about this conversation was the notion that fundraisers learn how to appropriately “dwell” with a donor in order to ensure that they are putting the relationship ahead of whatever proposal we are trying to advance. Afterwards, I had to double-check my understanding of what it means to “dwell” with someone; it is not a term I’m accustomed to using and certainly something I wanted to contemplate more.
To “dwell” means to remain for a time, and when we say that we are dwelling with someone there is often a degree of intentionality that accompanies it. How many of us have learned how to dwell with a donor without finding it necessary to close the gift? This notion of dwelling echoes Rebecca’s challenge that, as we emerge from the pandemic, fundraisers will need permission to spend time with their donors having conversations that are about more than closing another gift. She insisted that we have to make room for listening to what people are saying to us, both directly and indirectly, about their experiences in the last two years and how all this will inform their decisions.
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#166 | Student Project, Part 2 | What does non-profit leadership look like for women around the globe?
#165 | Student Project, Part 1 | What does non-profit leadership look like for women around the globe?
#164 | Should beneficiaries have more say in how their stories are told in our fundraising efforts?
#163 | Does fundraising really want to get back to business as usual?
#162 | How do fundraising professionals make the best of difficult times?
#161 | Should someone's past prohibit them from participating in philanthropy?
#160 | How does a nonprofit organization decide which charitable gifts it will receive versus those it will reject?
#159 | What impact will the recent pandemic have on fundraising practices a year from now?
#158 | What important lessons have fundraising professionals learned during the pandemic?
#157 | How are HBCU schools ensuring that they recieve their fair share of the philanthropic pie?
#156 | How has Covid-19 affected fundraising for international organizations? Part 6: AFP Toronto Collaboration
#155 | What advice are we getting tired of hearing from fundraising consultants? Guest: David Baker @ Giving Design
#154 | Will Covid-19 remedy some of the bad fundraising habits that we have been ignoring?
#153 | Will hostility towards our donors really help our fundraising efforts?
#152 | How has Covid-19 affected fundraising for environmental organizations? Part 5: AFP Toronto Collaboration
#151 | Will Covid-19 require that nonprofits reinvent themselves, their boards, and their fundraising efforts?
#150 | How has Covid-19 affected fundraising for educational organizations? Part 4: AFP Toronto Collaboration
#149 | How has Covid-19 affected fundraising for arts organizations? Part 3: AFP Toronto Collaboration
#148 | How has Covid-19 affected fundraising for healthcare organizations? Part 2: AFP Toronto Collaboration
#147 | What can fundraising professionals expect of technology in a post-Covid-19 world?
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