Simplify Year-End Fundraising

Simplify Year-End Fundraising

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...
Be the Devil’s Advocate

Be the Devil’s Advocate

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...
The Night I Became a Movie Star! **

The Night I Became a Movie Star! **

** Actually, the night I worked as an extra on a film set, but why quibble over the details?  This week, I had the opportunity to check an item off my “bucket list”: I worked as an extra for a film that was shooting in downtown DC! Actually, it’s a...