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Board Relations    Budget Stretching   Committees     Fundraising
General Management   In a Nutshell    Leadership  Marketing
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BOARD RELATIONS
10 Questions a Board Should Be Prepared to Answer
2 Ways to Build a Better Board
3 Easy Ways for Board Members to Raise $500
3 Interesting Board Meeting Ideas
3 Ways to Stay in Touch on a Busy Schedule
4 Ideas for Recruiting New Board Members
4 Steps to Create Your Board of the Future
4 Tips on Better Board Evaluations
5 Ways to Energize Board Meetings
5 Ways to Jump-Start Your Board
5 Ways to Strengthen Board Performance
6 Tips to Increase Board Meeting Attendance
6 Ways to Educate Your Board Members to Give
7 Guidelines for Effective Board Information
7 Questions to Evaluate Potential Board Members
7 Steps to More Productive Board Meetings
7 Ways to Keep Your Board Happy
A Better Attendance Policy
A Better Idea Than “I’ll Just Watch”
A Better Way to Handle Poor Attendance
A Better Way to Reject Board Candidates
A Checklist for Effective Board Decision Making
A User’s Guide to Effective Board Retreats
An Exercise in Accountability
An Exercise to Assess Your Board
Are the Conditions Right for Board Recruitment?
Assigning Board Members to Committees
Avoid Board Burnout
Basic Ingredients of a Board Information System
Better Annual Meetings
Better Board Communication
Better Board Decisions
Better Board Decisions
Better Board Orientations
Better Board Recruiting
Board Development Ideas
Board Diversity Lessons From Abroad
Board Diversity Principles
Board Manual Checklist
Board Meets on the Internet
Board Member Gifts That Keep On Giving
Board Nomination Checklist
Board Recruitment Tip
Board Recruitment Tips
Board Training on a Tight Budget
Board/Budget Basics
Boost Board Effectiveness
Bridging the Age Gap Between Board Members
Broaden Board Members’ Horizons
Build Your Board From the Bottom Up
Building a Better Board
Building Board Cohesion
Can You Afford a Paid Board Secretary?
Changing Bad Habits of a Long-Standing Board
Changing Bad Habits of a Long-Standing Board
Checklist for a Competent Board
Checklist for a Model Board Meeting
Communicate Better
Communicate Expectations About Money
Communicating Financial Info to Your Board
Communicating with Your Board
Consensus or Bust?
Creating Your Ideal Board of Directors
Cultivate Board Members’ Analytical Skills
Cultivating Prospective Board Members
Cultivation Meetings for Board Candidates
Develop a “Power Board”
Develop a Board Growth Contract
Develop Issue Briefings for Board Members
Diffusing Board Conflict
Distribute the Post-Retreat Plan
Do Board Members Dread Board Packets?
Do Your Board Members Make the Grade?
Does Your Board Take an Active Fundraising Role?
Does Your Board Understand Fundraising?
Don’t Ask Your Board to Reinvent the Wheel
Don’t Ask Your Board to Reinvent the Wheel
Don’t Sweat Cold-Calls
Draw Board Prospects Into the Evaluation
Evaluating Board Roles
Face-to-Face Recruiting Works Best
Find a Model Board
Form Board Study Groups
Getting Board Commitments in Writing
Getting Board Members Interested in Diversity
Getting Board Members Off to a Great Start
Getting Clients on Board
Getting Commitment for Board Retreats
Getting Reluctant Board Members to Fundraise
Getting the Most From Board Meetings
Getting Your Board to Fundraise
Give Members the Personal Touch
Give Your Board a Checkup
Give Your Board a PR Education
Give Your Directors a Reading Assignment
Go To a Board Meeting, Buy Eggs
Has Your Board Reached a Fundraising Stalemate?
Help Board Members Bond
Hold a Diversity Workshop for Your Board
Host a Brown Bag Lunch
How About a Cup of Coffee
How Big Should the Board Be?
How Do You Eliminate the Dead Weight?
How to “Retire” Your Board Members
How to Attract Great Board Candidates
How to Deal With Disgruntled Board Members
How to Ease Board Members Into Fundraising
How to Ensure a Successful Board
How to Find Good Board Members
How to Foster Board Trust
How to Identify and Nurture Board Prospects
How to Identify Potential Board Members
How to Improve Board Effectiveness
How to Improve Your Board Agenda Packet
How to Improve Your Board Presentations
How to Keep Good Board Members
How to Make Emergency Decisions
How to Mobilize a Bored Board
How to Orient Your New Board Members
How to Recruit Tomorrow’s Leaders Today
How to Unite New Members With Your Board
How to Welcome a New Board Member
Improve Attendance at Board Meetings
Inform Board and Staff of Volunteer “News”
Involving the Quiet Ones
Is It Time for the Annual Board Check-Up?
Is Parliamentary Procedure Dead?
Just for Board Members
Keep Former Board Members Involved
Leadership Succession
Low-Cost/High-Yield Tips For a Better Board
Maintaining Effective Board Practices
Making Your Retreats Count
Materials Checklist for Potential Board Members
Other Ways to Contribute
Planning a Perfect Retreat
Play “What If?”
Practical Tips For Building Your Board
Practical Ways to Strengthen Governance
Preparing Your Board for Action
Preventing Problem Board Members
Pump Up Your Board
Put Brainstorming on Your Board Agenda
Put Fundraising on Menu at Breakfast Meeting
Put Your Board to the Test
Record Your Board Meetings
Recruiting High-Profile Board Prospects
Recruiting Minority Board Members
Removing a Difficult Board Member
Resolving Conflicts Between Board Members
Review Policies & Procedures With Board
Saying Good-Bye to Board Members
Schedule Board “Reflection Time”
Schedule Social Time for Board Members
Seek Board Diversity
Selecting New Board Members
Shared Vision is the Key
Spell Out Board Development Expectations
Strengthen Board Governance With Stipends
Strengthen Your Board’s Educational Skills
Strengthen Your Nominating Committee
Structure Your Board for Success
Symptoms of Ineffective Board Meetings
Tailor Your Board Recruitment Pitch
Take Your Board Retreat Off-Site
The “Three W’s” of Board Member Evaluation
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Boards
The Initial Task of the Nominating Committee
The Politics of Board Relationships
The Secret to Successful Board Retreats
Time Off for Board Members
To Go Forward, Retreat!
To Retreat or Not to Retreat
Train Your Board
Try a Board Development Pack
Try These Ongoing Board Training Ideas
Tune Into the Good Points
Use Annual Board Committee Reports
Volunteers on the Board? No Way!”
Welcoming Newcomers
What Do Board Members Expect?
What Goes in a Board Commitment Letter?
What is Diversity?
What Potential Board Members Look For
What’s the Board’s Role in Finances?
What’s the Point of the Board Manual?
Where Are the Holes in Your Board?
Where to Find New Board Members
Who Does What?
Who’s Your Board Secretary?
Why Do Board Members Give?
Why Do You Need Board Diversity?
Words That Sell
Working With a New Board

 

 BUDGET STRETCHING IDEAS
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 COMMITTEES
10 Tips for Successful Committees
5 Ways to Ruin a Committee
A Checklist for Effective Committees
Assigning Board Members to Committees
Avoid These Common Committee Mistakes
Boost Committee Results
Celebrate Committee Achievements
Committee Member Checklist
Consensus or Bust?
Create a Board Management Committee
Criteria for Successful Committees
Do You Have a Crisis Committee?
Do You Use Committee Action Plans?
Evaluate Committee Members
How to “Break the Ice”
How to Achieve a Good Committee Composition
How to Build an Effective Committee
How to Get Top-Notch People Involved
How to Improve Committee Performance
How to Keep Committees Running Smoothly
Improve Committee Meetings
Improve Committee Reports
Improve Your Committee Meetings
Increasing Committee Member Participation
Involving Committee Members
Make Committee Assignments Realistic
Managing Committee Reports
Organize Your Way to Committee Success
Secrets of a Successful Committee
Should You Have a Governance Committee?
Strengthen Your Nominating Committee
The Chairperson’s Role as Facilitator
The Initial Task of the Nominating Committee
The Right Way to Follow-Up a Committee Meeting
Try Committee Rotations
What Are the Powers of an Executive Committee?
Working With Committees
Writing Grant Proposals With Committees

 

 

 DONOR RELATIONS  &  FUNDRAISING
“Find” In-Kind Donations
“Info-Preneuring” for Profit
“NITRO” Will Ignite a New Fundraising Program
“Telling” Donors What to Give
10 Profitable Corporate Insights
10 Ways to Cultivate Your Donors
10 Ways to Thank Your Donor
12 Ideas to Cultivate & Recognize Donors
12 Tips to Raising More Than Funds
14 Simple Ways to Help Donors Donate
15 Ideal Prospects for a Major Gift
3 Donor Thank-You Ideas
3 Easy Ways for Board Members to Raise $500
3 Fundraising Mistakes to Avoid
3 Golden Rules of Fundraising Letters
3 Steps to Better Direct Mail Fundraising
3 Steps to Getting the Sponsorship Appointment
3 Tips for Better Service
4 Easy Ways to Get to Know Your Donors
4 Fundraising Myths
4 Insider Secrets of a Successful Proposal
4 Keys to Successful Board Fundraising
4 Rules of Etiquette for Fundraisers
4 Secrets to Closing the Gift
4 Tips for Successful Fundraising
5 Steps to a More Successful Major Gift Visit
5 Tips for Reaching Affluent Prospects
5 Tips for Staying Employed
5 Tips to Improve Corporate Solicitations
6 Ideas for a Direct Mail Membership Campaign
6 Key Ingredients of a Monthly Giving Program
6 Requirements of a Funding Drive
6 Tips on Asking for Donor Referrals
7 Deadly Sins of Corporate Fundraising
7 Ideas to Expand Your Wish List
7 Reasons to Start a Monthly Giving Program
7 Steps to a Case Statement
7 Steps to Developing a Major Gifts Program
7 Tips on Asking for Corporate Donations
7 Ways to Use the Web for Fundraising
8 Questions to Ask a Potential Fundraiser
9 Donor Groups to Go After
9 Tips for Working With Celebrities
9 Tips on Donor Recognition Walls
9 Tips to Develop a Donor Prospect List
A Creative Approach to Your Wish List
A Gift for Annual Fund Donors
A Picture-Perfect Idea
A Primer on Thanking Your Donors
A Recognition Fundraiser
A Salesperson’s Approach to Fundraising
Add-On Revenue Ideas for Your Fundraiser
Adopt the Right Donor Approach
Aim for Stellar Customer Service
An Emotional Direct Mail Tip
Annual Fund “Giving & Getting” Guidelines
Appealing to Corporations
Are You Ignoring an Income Opportunity?
Are You Making Fundraising Mistakes?
Are You Ready for a Planned Giving Program?
Are You Ready For Fundraising?
Are You Using Telemarketing?
Ask For Less and Get More
Ask For More
Ask the Right Person
Asking for Year-End Contributions
Asking Volunteers to Donate
Attracting Today’s Donors
Avoid Solicitation Mistakes
Avoid These 5 Common Proposal Errors
Be Different For Dollars
Better Problem-Solving
Beyond the Fundraiser
Boost Donor Response With Year-End Thank You’s
Boost Your Capital Campaign Success
Building Relationships with Top Donor Prospects
Capital Campaign Checklist
Challenging 4 Fundraising Myths
Chasing the Corporate Donation
Choose the Right Fundraising Tactic for Your Strategy
Cold-Calling for Dollars
Common Errors in Soliciting Large Gifts
Conduct a Planned Giving Seminar
Contact Past Grantees For Help
Contacting Donors In Between the Asks
Corporate Funds: 101
Creating “Mini-Fundraising Campaigns”
Creating Healthy Relationships With Funders
Creating the Fantasy Raffle
Creative Asking
Cultivate Donors With “Feel-Good” Events
Designing Fundable Projects
Determining Realistic Fundraising Goals
Develop a Fundraising Strategy
Developing an Annual Fund Campaign Calendar
Digging Up In-Kind Donations
Direct Mail Fundraising Myths
Do You Do Quickies?
Do You Know Your Donors?
Do You Pass the Donor’s Test?
Does Your Board Understand Fundraising?
Don’t Alienate a Good Donor
Don’t Argue With Major Donors — Educate
Don’t Forget a Call to Action
Don’t Leave Empty-Handed
Don’t Overlook Year-End Mailings
Don't Mess Up Your Fundraising Program!
Double the Gift After the Pledge is Made
Easier Memorial Giving
Effective Premium Ideas
Energize Your Annual Fund Appeal
Establish Stewardship With the First Gift
Estimate Giving Potential
Evaluating Fundraising Software
Evaluating Your Planned Giving Program
Finding Corporate Giving Prospects
Finding Donors in the Mail
Focus on Fundraising
Follow This Model Year-End Appeal
Follow Through On Your Fundraising Efforts
Following Up With Funders
Fundraising = Friendraising
Fundraising Checklist
Fundraising Truths
Generating New Sources of Revenue
Get Donors Involved in Your Direct Mail Appeal
Getting Board Members to Fundraise
Getting Donors to Upgrade Their Gifts
Getting Past the “Phone Call Screener”
Getting Reluctant Board Members to Fundraise
Getting Your Board to Fundraise
Give Old Ideas a New Twist
Giving That Makes Cents
Grant Writing Tip
Handling Objections
Has Your Board Reached a Fundraising Stalemate?
Help Donors Identify With Recipients
Highlighting Donor Cultivation Materials
Hints on Corporate Giving
Holiday Card Variation
How Do You Develop a Donor Club?
How Donor Thank-You’s Generate Income
How Should You Thank Donors?
How Small Non-Profits Can Build Donor Lists
How to Analyze Your Fundraising Program
How to Ask For Money in 6 Steps
How to Ask for the Next Gift (After Being Turned Down)
How to Choose the Right Solicitor
How to Collect Pledges
How to Craft a Development Plan
How to Create a Corporate Prospect List
How to Ease Board Members Into Fundraising
How to Evaluate Your New Fundraiser
How to Exceed Your Donor’s Expectations
How to Find More Donors
How to FLAG Major Gift Donors
How to Follow Up on a Proposal Rejection
How to Get a Piece of the Sponsorship Pie
How to Handle Corporate Rejections
How to Handle Donor Mistakes
How to Handle Donor Objections
How to Handle First-Year Donors
How to Handle Proposal Rejections
How to Make Donating Fun
How to Match the Funder to Your Project
How to Research Corporate Giving Programs
How to Research Funders on the Internet
How to Solicit Affluent Seniors
How to Start a Planned Giving Program
How to Use Focus Groups for Fundraising
How to Write a Winning Foundation Proposal
How to Write Better Corporate Proposals
How Well Do You Know Your Prospects?
If You Don’t Ask, You Won’t Receive
Improve Your Chances for Foundation Funding
Improve Your Grant Proposal
Improve Your Presentation to Funding Sources
Increase Your Grant-Seeking Success
Keep Holiday Fundraising Low-Cost
Know How to Say “Thank You”
Know Thy Partner
Major Gift Checklist
Make Donors Respond Now
Make the Connection for Corporate Funding
Make Your Grant Proposal Easy on the Eyes
Making Auctions Pay Off
Match Prospects With Methodologies
Matching Gift Tips
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Meeting With Prospects
Motivate Donors to Upgrade
Networking With the Affluent
Offer Donors a Menu of Support
Opportunistic Fundraising
Piggyback on Company Mailings
Planned Giving Follow-Up
Planned Giving Tip
Post-Gift Guidelines
Prepare a Summary Report of Major Gift Visits
Prepare an “Elevator Speech”
Publicize Your Wish List
Put Fundraising Eggs in More Than One Basket
Put Fundraising on Menu at Breakfast Meeting
Putting the Donor First
Raising More Than Funds
Remember These Gift Truisms
Satisfy Your “Clients”
Scheduling Celebrities
Seek In-Kind Donations
Sell Benefits in Your Fundraising Appeals
Sell Your Own Billboard
Selling What Donors Can’t See
Send New Donors a Welcome Package
Send Prospects a Calendar
Should You Create Fundraising Pieces In-House?
Starting a Development Office From Scratch
Strengthen Your Donor List
Strengthen Your Sponsor Potential
Take a Bold Step in Soliciting Major Gifts
Targeting Small-Gift Donors
Teach Fundraising Piece by Piece
Team Up With Labor Unions
Techno-Fundraising
Test Your Fundraising Savvy
Testing Your Fundraising Case Statement
That Was Stupid!
The 5 C’s of Fundraising
The Key to Writing Effective Fundraising Copy
The Millionaire Next Door
Tips for Corporate Solicitations
Tips for Working with Celebrities
Tips on Asking Major Donors for Gifts
Top 3 Priorities for the Small Development Staff
Top 4 Solicitation Mistakes
Top Tips for Telephone Fundraising
Top Tips for Writing a Grant Proposal
Tracking Your Top 100 Donors & Prospects
Transforming Printed Appeals Into Money
Treating Donors Like Customers
Try This Direct Mail Experiment
Tune Up Your Wish List
Unique Fundraising Ideas
Unleashing World-Class Service
Use a Contract When Hiring Consultants
Use Storytelling in Your Fundraising Letters
Use the 80/20 Rule of Fundraising
Use This Checklist for Major Gift Visits
Using a Newsletter to Reach Your Audiences
What Are the Worst Times for Fundraising?
What Can You Offer a Corporate Donor?
What Donors Want to Know
What Funders Expect to See in a Grant Proposal
What Makes a Great Fundraiser?
What Makes a Successful Fundraiser?
What Makes Online Fundraising Successful?
What Motivates Donors?
What Should You Do When Donors Visit?
What to Do When a Funder Says “No”
What to Do When You Get the Corporate Grant
What to Look for in a Donor Prospect
What to Say to Prospects Before You Ask
What to Write in Donor Thank You Letters
What’s the Etiquette of Asking for Money?
What’s Your Climate for Giving?
When to Ask for Bequests
Where Should You Look for Prospects?
Where to Look for Prospects
Who Are Your Best Major Gift Prospects?
Who Can Say “Yes”?
Who’s On Your Guest List?
Why Businesses Deny Funding Requests
Why Follow-Up Mailings Work
Why Mail a Donor Welcome Package?
Writing Grant Proposals With Committees
Writing Your Proposal’s Executive Summary

 

GENERAL MANAGEMENT
“Everyone Is Doing It. I’ll Do It, Too.”
10 Common Merger Mistakes
10 Tips to Better Training
10 Ways to Save Money on Newsletters
2 Effective Training Props
3 Skills to Improve Your Communications
3 Time-Saving Tricks
3 Tips to Avoid Burnout
3 Ways to Nurture Your Network
3 Ways to Say “Thank You”
3 Ways to Say Thank You
3-Step Solution to Handling Complaints
4 Idea-Generating Techniques
4 Tips for Strategic Planning
4 Tips to Enhance Presentation Visuals
4 Tips to Solve Problems Effectively
4 Tips to Stay Sharp
5 Tips for Better Evaluations
5 Tips for Writing a Mission Statement
5 Tips on Forging a Link With Other Non-Profits
5 Ways to Boost Your Bottom Line
5 Ways to Turn Down the Pressure
6 Reasons to Form a Coalition
6 Steps to Improving Your Organization
6 Tips for a Dynamic Presentation
7 Factors to Consider in Strategic Planning
7 Smart Ways To Advance Your Career
7 Tips For A Great Presentation
7 Tips For A Great Presentation
8-Step Formula for Better Presentations
9 Tips to Control Expenses of a Video Project
A Checklist for Setting Good Objectives
A Checklist for the Entrepreneurial Non-Profit
A Strategic Alliance Checklist
A Training Trick-of-the-Trade
Advisory Group Top Tips
Alternatives to Training
Annual Reports Look Ahead by Looking Back
Are You Prepared for a Crisis?
Ask the Right Person
Ask Training Attendees to Be Video Critics
Avoid Presentation Pitfalls
Avoid These Common Management Pitfalls
Avoid This Common Management Pitfall
Avoid Video No-No’s
Bartering Non-Profit Style
Become a Master of Follow-Up
Better Brainstorming
Better Networking
Better Networking
Better Networking
Better Problem-Solving
Better Reference Checks
Beyond Crisis Planning
Boost Morale with Media Successes
Build a Powerful Network
Business Card Bounty
Business Card Tips
Combine Forces With Other Non-Profits
Conference Call Tips
Consider Outsourcing
Coping With Cutbacks
Cost-Cutting Tips for Your Newsletter
Create a Brainstorming Bulletin Board
Create a Convenient Instruction Book
Create a Frequent Buyer Program
Cultivate Supporters With Calendars