How can you tackle the current economic challenges fearlessly? What does the funding future hold for your organization? How can you navigate your way through all the change and uncertainty? You cannot lead yourself and your organization if you’re afraid. Fear is rooted in our egos, and your ego rarely if ever has your best [...]
From the Chronicle of Philanthropy…by Caroline Preston
Some conventional fund-raising wisdom has been turned upside down by a growing number of psychologists and economists who study altruism, while other approaches now have an increasing amount of research to back them up.
Scholars have found that fund-raising appeals do best when they are crafted around a single gripping [...]
In preparation for an upcoming Bar Leader article, I began interviewing executive directors of bar associations across the county to hear about their experiences in launching bar foundations. My goal was to gather their collective wisdom and share their perspectives with other executives whose bar associations were thinking about starting a bar foundation, or for [...]