by Lauren Brownstein | Jul 4, 2023 | Inspiration, Nonprofit, Uncategorized
Ooh La La! A Ten Day Vacation in Paris! I’m just back from a dream of a vacation: 10 days in Paris! I took my daughter there to celebrate her high school graduation. We stayed in the heart of the city, walked for miles, saw world-class art, took a macaron making...
by Lauren Brownstein | Oct 27, 2022 | Fundraising, Nonprofit
The year-end fundraising season is ramping up. Giving Tuesday is at the end of November. The biggest donation week of the year is the last week in December. There are emails to draft, donor and prospect lists to pull, paper mailings to design and print, text to...
by Lauren Brownstein | Mar 30, 2022 | Fundraising, grants, Nonprofit
I’m hoping that this will be the first in an ongoing series of posts that pulls back the curtain on what nonprofits wish they could say to their major funders, including foundations. I invite other consultants and people who work closely with nonprofits to chime...
by Lauren Brownstein | Mar 3, 2022 | donation, Fundraising, Nonprofit
Your organization can search high and low for new donors… but the new donors you seek might be hiding in plain sight. There are plenty of places to find “new” (or, not-so-new) donors to your nonprofit’s annual campaign **: LYBUNTS and SYBUNTS:...
by Lauren Brownstein | Dec 1, 2021 | Nonprofit
What is a Devil’s Advocate? Cambridge dictionary tells us that a Devil’s Advocate is: Someone who pretends, in an argument or discussion, to be against an idea or plan that a lot of people support, in order to make people discuss and consider it in more...
