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When is the best time to assess your fundraising productivity? Best answer: frequently.  If you’re not assessing fundraising productivity, maybe it’s because

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Our Leaky Bucket Assessment for Effective Fundraising has reached China! You might be surprised to see how a Chinese agency compares to our study.

If you want to get fundraising right and not backwards, then the first step toward doing so is to get the Five Components of Successful Fundraising c

Get your fundraising right. Don't get it backwards! Effective fund development means great planning, metrics, guidelines and reports.

Can a small, unsophisticated agency break its fundraising logjam? Yes - even if they back into it by going after the wrong prospects!

Nonprofit strategic planning and nonprofit fund-development planning - why do we need all this planning anyway?

This is the last in our series of three posts on how nonprofit organizations can use Social Media Right, with thanks to Ken Okel.  In Part 2, Ken exp

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