By: Senior Consultant, Christine Bariahtaris It’s August 2025 and everybody is stressed. The funding landscape is whackadoodle – grants are disappearing, the donor pool is shrinking, and most of us are under a lot of pressure to deliver. But still, if you see one more profile request from Janet marked “urgent” come in today, your […]| Helen Brown Group
Ten tough realities lawyers avoid—and the cost of ignoring the truth You know that feeling in your gut—the one you keep shoving aside? For me, it’s a red flag that I’m dodging a hard truth. I’ve done it plenty: pretending a partnership wasn’t broken, holding onto a toxic client, pushing through a workload that was […] The post The Pain Is In The Acceptance appeared first on Woven Legal.| Woven Legal
Why treat your brand activation like a one-night stand when it can be the beginning of a long, meaningful story? When you build your experience around a clear, ownable idea, you’re setting yourself up with content that can fuel your marketing all year long. We connected with our content strategists to offer 10 ways to deliver content that continues to build the relationship beyond the activation.| Inspira Marketing
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You don't have to have a counseling degree to help children in crisis —you need a friendship with Jesus and kids and a whole lot of empathy.| Children's Ministry
When the world feels wildly out of whack, it’s time to figure out how to bring things back into some semblance of balance. Today I a proven 1-2-3 formula for nonprofit fundraising success — even when the ground underneath feels shaky. This is a time when keeping one’s balance is quite a challenge. But, if…| Clairification
Many professionals struggle to build long-term career success because they fail to understand the power of networking and relationship building| GrowMeOrganic
Today I want to talk about the heart of successful major gift fundraising. It’s about reframing what you may think of as a “pitch” into what your donor would like to consider a “promise.” The pitch is one way. A monologue you iver about everything you know about your organization. Usually it’s about how great…| Clairification
Nonprofits pay a lot of attention to donor acquisition. Then? They largely ignore these donors, unless… They become worthy of attention by virtue of being ‘major’ donors. Then? Nonprofits pay a lot of attention to major donor relationship building. But between new donor acquisition and major donor cultivation, solicitation and stewardship, what happens? Usually not…| Clairification
Everyone’s been saying this, just about daily, for some time. “These aren’t ordinary times.” If the anthem for the Boomer generation was Bob Dylan’s “The TImes They Are A’Changin’,” what’s the anthem for today? History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. We’re living in the face of a firehose of breaking news, and much of…| Clairification
For good things once a year is not enough. Why do so many of us only eat turkey once a year? Or pumpkin pie? I’ve no idea! It’s surely not rational. These are special foods we value and take great ight in. Yet we get into a bad habit of thinking on auto pilot. If…| Clairification
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While you no doubt want donors of all sizes, you especially want loyal donors who make above average size gifts. Because that’s where you’ll get the greatest return on your investment. Today, let’s talk about major donors. Why? They account for the lion’s share of all contributed income. Studies show…| Clairification
Awareness alone is passive. Do you wish you had a dime for every time a nonprofit board or staff member told you “We’re the best kept secret in town; if people knew what we do, they’d give to support us.” Nonprofits tell me this all the time! If I had all those dimes, I…| Clairification
It costs to acquire a new donor than retain a current one. A lot . In fact, research shows it takes 7 – 12% effort, time and money to bring in a new donor than to raise from a current donor. Please, please, please… let this sink in. The for-profit world understands…| Clairification
