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Welcome to the Leaky Bucket blog, where we discuss everything related to measuring, managing, and improving fundraising performance. And some other stray thoughts from time to time.

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The Pipeline isn't the same thing as the Forecast. So why assume it is? Equating the two has a negative impact on building fundraising capacity.

Fundraisers, do you wonder "gee, I hope these prospects think we're good enough for them!" Maybe you should learn to channel my cousin Judy. She always asked "are THEY good enough for ME?" And her "hit rate" was fantastic!

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Fundraising professionals: is your boss the development director, the CEO, or your development plan instead. Find out why the plan's the boss.

When it comes to fundraising,who are we raising the money for, exactly? I think we're raising it for our donors first. I was prompted to think

The data are in: nonprofits need to pump up their fundraising performance.  AFP's Fundraising Effectiveness Project 2013 tells us gains of $769 milli

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