Newton's Laws of Fundraising #83 - You never know who you have hiding in your mailing list!
Bruce doesn’t want to be on the board. But he will have lunch with us. That’s cool. We like lunch. So we get together with Bruce and “run names” for an hour. Do you run names? It’s probably called different things in different parts of the country, but around here that’s what we call it when we’re able to “run a list of names past a Big Shooter,” like Bruce. A past president of the local chamber of commerce, longtime businessman and former Board president for some of the t

Newton's Laws of Fundraising #84 - Sometime's They'll Jump on the Bandwagon!
There it was. A bandwagon gift! You may have grown up believing that if you brushed and flossed every day, cleaned your plate, said your prayers, gained your CFRE, wrote the thank you notes, held your mouth right and said, “yes please and no thank you” to your Board President that SOME fine day, you might get a bandwagon gift. Well, I did. I felt like Charlie Bucket calling out to all of England, holding aloft a gleaming yellow slip of paper. Only it was a check. And it wa
