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 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 | Feb 3, 2022 | Inspiration, Nonprofit
Organizations tend to spend a lot of time creating (or refining) their mission statements… only to forget about them. In the midst of changes, crises, and emerging opportunities, a mission statement can sometimes seem like just an exercise in semantics. But,...
by Lauren Brownstein | Oct 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
** 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...
by Lauren Brownstein | Sep 9, 2021 | grants, Nonprofit, Writing
The process of writing grant proposals, fundraising letters, case statements, or other documents that describe your nonprofit can be about so much more than fundraising. Finding the right words to say what you do, how you do it, and why it matters will help your...
