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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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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

Two weeks ago, I did a webinar for the wonderful people at 4Good.org, called Fundraising the SMART Way: Why We Need a Fundraising Revolution.

What's the bigger challenge to fundraising: complexity or uncertainty? Both plague many development shops, which means reduced productivity.

Fundraisers, are the holidays stressing you out? Reduce your stress with a free copy of our e-book De-Mystifying Fundraising!

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