There is no question that voting rights are under extraordinary attack right now in this country. And the people being targeted are pretty much one and the same as the people most of us serve. This is not entirely new, as we ...
Last week, I tackled how to diagnose exactly what's going on when funders say they love you, but they're still not investing at the correct level. In that conversation (Episode 145) we laid some really important groundwork to help you map out exactly where the problem is occurring, how it’s manifes…
I want to talk about a problem that is way more common than you might think. The one where funders say they love you, but still under-invest in your work. Chances are good you know exactly what I’m talking about. You've got t...
We all know that stories are important when we're engaging decisionmakers. But we don't always know what story is going to be the right story. And how to tell that story in a way that is really going to pull that decisionmaker in, and actually move them closer to yes. So often I hear from Nonprofit…
Tell me if this has ever happened to you. You were solid with your messaging. You had that dialed in, and you'd engaged the decisionmaker and gotten them to the point where they're interested in your stuff. And then when you ...
For a change I want to share what it feels like for me to be on the receiving end of some amazing coaching. There's so much value in working with great coaches. They help me stretch my sense of what’s possible, they ask the r...
