Monthly Archives: April 2009

When you are promoting a project or asking for support for a particular effort, it’s very common to send out a letter from the director (marked PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL – URGENT, of course) directly appealing for funds. Another approach is … Continue reading →

If you are like most every other ministry or charity in the world, you spend a good chunk of your time developing a donor network. Your ‘network’, though, isn’t really a network. Instead, it’s a list of 1:1 relationships. You … Continue reading →

As I get ready for a ‘mapping meeting’ (more on what I mean by that in a sec) with a Seoul USA champion tonight, I’m reminded of a line of questioning I receive frequently from ministries: Do I really need … Continue reading →