Category Archives: Fundraising

To thrive, organizations and leaders need to deal with two facts of life. Humans make mistakes. And humans have unmet expectations in their relationships.   Here’s an example of a mistake. After I led my first capital campaign meeting with … Continue reading

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Recently I asked one of the farmers at Plow Creek to describe pruning. In February each year he and another farmer or two prune our two acres of blueberries. I assumed that the he and the others are doing a … Continue reading

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Recently I talked with a nonprofit exec who said, “I’ve been in this business for thirty years and this is the first time I’ve been worried about survival [of an organization].” When Evergreen Leaders was founded in 2003 we focused … Continue reading

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