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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 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.

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I’m writing a book about Fundraising the SMART Way, my methodology for sustainable fundraising based on the continuous improvement model.

Many nonprofit executives have told me that they don’t know how to “find” donors. The "finding" problem keeps them awake at night. They w

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