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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#86 | How will the Open Data Movement change our fundraising practices?
#85 | Are you a “How Am I Doing” fundraiser?
#84 | How do fundraisers navigate tension between a donor and the organization?
#83 | Should we consider commission-based compensation for major gift officers?
#82 | What do veteran fundraisers most want for aspiring, young professionals?
#81 | What drives fundraising professionals the most crazy?
#80 | Can flexible work environments fix some of fundraising’s turnover problems?
#79 | Are CEO’s and consultants getting in the way of fundraising talent?
#78 | Do fundraising professionals need a college degree?
#77 | Why are charities increasingly at odds with their major donors? Part 2
#76 | Why are charities increasingly at odds with their major donors?
#75 | What does a healthy relationship between fundraiser and CEO really look like?
#74 | How much of contemporary fundraising practice was designed by control freaks?
#73 | Does the fundraising profession need a makeover?
#72 | If they ran parliament, could fundraising professionals have prevented Brexit?
#71 | Why is grant-seeking the first fundraising move most nonprofits make?
#70 | Has philanthropy been designed for the macho white male?
#69 | What does a really great fundraising event look like?
#68 | What more can a nonprofit organization achieve by sharing leadership?
#67 | What would a tennis pro have to say about professional fundraising?
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