The Fundraising Talent Podcast
Business:Non-Profit
The question I often want to ask any fundraiser who explains to me that they are frustrated and disappointed in their work is whether they know how to search out and identify opportunities that will ensure them an opportunity for meaningful work. Instead of discerning whether a new job will offer them the chance to shine in meaningful ways, I see far too many fundraisers gravitating toward alluring mission statements and charismatic bosses who ultimately let them down. My guest today on The Fundraising Talent Podcast is Scott Perry who has made it his business to help his clients improve these types of discernment skills. Scott wants to ensure that, rather doing work fraught with disappointment and burnout, all of us have the opportunity to flourish and thrive in our workplaces.
Scott has recognized that many of us, regardless of the professional path we have taken, were told deceptive tales of how it all works. Most of these tales originated at the beginning of the twentieth century when efficiency, predictability, and control were all that mattered. Instead of creating opportunities for employees to be creative and curious and to make genuine human connections, many of our workplaces remain steeped in industrial era virtues that leave us feeling like we are merely parts of a machine designed sap every last ounce of our value.
As always, we are especially grateful to our friends at CueBack for sponsoring The Fundraising Talent Podcast. And, if you’d like to download Responsive’s latest edition of Carefully & Critically, just click here.
#66 | Does experience as a fundraiser make for a better boss?
#65 | How do we navigate through fundraising's messy middle?
#64 | How many gimmicks does your organization's fundraising strategy really need?
#63 | Where do fundraising professionals go to sharpen their saw?
#62 | Who is really getting in the way of talented fundraising professionals?
#61 | How do we design a road with fewer potholes for aspiring fundraising professionals?
#60 | What was the scariest trend in fundraising for 2018?
#59 | Should fundraising professionals be all about story-telling or story-listening?
#58 | How many one-hundred-dollar donors are merely waiting for you to go the extra mile?
#57 | How can we design a better candidate pipeline to address the inequities in fundraising?
#56 | How can we ensure that fundraising is keeping up with the pace of innovation?
#55 | What should a fundraising professional do when their donor says, “I will think about it.”?
#54 | How can fundraising professionals better engage with the LGBTQ donors that their organization already has?
#53 | Should fundraising professionals always rely on special events for harvesting support?
#52 | How do small shop fundraising professionals avoid the post-conference blues?
#51 | Has donor-centrism become fundraising’s eight-hundred-pound gorilla?
#50 | Why are men still ruling so many of fundraising’s C-Suites?
#49 | What is the data really telling you about what's right (and wrong) with your fundraising?
# 48 | Should fundraising professionals be talking about mental health?
# 47 | What's getting in the way of your fundraising career, and what you can do about it?
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