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I remember driving to the Bay Area to meet with a rescue mission director there one recession ago. It was right in the months after the Internet bubble popped, and suddenly their fund raising program popped as well. In the … Continue reading →

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 →