Advisory Groups: Fundraising’s Flux Capacitors
By: W. Milton Key, Jr., Partner In recent days, many of us were reminded of the pop culture significance of October 21, 2015, as the destination date for Marty McFly and Doc Emmett Brown, in the film Back To The Future II. Whether it’s time travel or the search for resources to sustain and growRead More Advisory Groups: Fundraising’s Flux Capacitors
AmazonSmile – Passive Income for Your Organization
By: Jarrad Howard, Campaign Strategy Studies Coordinator As a board member myself, I know how easy it is to focus 100% of your attention and energy on your donors and securing funding for your mission – through individual and corporate/institutional donations. While it is time and energy well spent, it is VERY time and energyRead More AmazonSmile – Passive Income for Your Organization
Campaigning Your Mission
By: Jerry W. Henry, Partner Have you noticed that the political season is in full swing? How could you miss it? It seems that the candidates for President of the United States are showing up everywhere! They are carrying their messages directly to the people and trying to help individual voters feel a close personalRead More Campaigning Your Mission
Lead With Your Mission
By: Mark Belcher, Partner How often have you decided to accept a gift from a donor that is designated for a “new” program? Nearly every development office has faced this opportunity in a climate when every gift seems like a step closer towards achieving our development goals. I recently heard that a very established organizationRead More Lead With Your Mission
Imagining The Future of Liberal Arts Colleges
By: Meggan Arp, Marketing Coordinator In light of Moody’s Investors Service’s ominous forecast that closure rates of small colleges and universities will triple and that mergers will double by 2017, many are questioning the future of small, liberal arts institutions. A recent article by Kellie Woodhouse in Inside Higher Ed identifies the main struggle forRead More Imagining The Future of Liberal Arts Colleges
Board Alphabet: T’s, W’s, G’s, and P
By: David Shufflebarger, Senior Partner Well done, the work of college and university governing boards is hard work. And today that work is more frequently done under public scrutiny based on such things as federal scorecards, financial aid stress tests, bond ratings, state mandates for improved graduation rates, and, sadly, leaders behaving badly. Not surprisingly,Read More Board Alphabet: T’s, W’s, G’s, and P
Increasing Meeting Productivity
By: Heather Thornton, Project Manager Have you ever been in a meeting that seemed to drag on and on, with no end in sight? Or perhaps you may have participated in a call that was not so much long as it was unproductive? I was recently involved in a volunteer effort which required weekly conferenceRead More Increasing Meeting Productivity
Make New Friends but Keep the Old…On Your Website
By: Elizabeth Smith, Project Coordinator Have you ever Googled your organization? Where do you fall in the ranks of listings? What if you run a broad search for your organization, e.g., private school Atlanta or museum Columbia, SC, would your organization still be ranked as high? Luckily there are easy ways to improve the healthRead More Make New Friends but Keep the Old…On Your Website
Working Your Way Through Conflict
By: Nancy E. Peterman, Partner Development officers are often the delight of any social occasion. Trained to facilitate conversations, we are masters of putting people at ease. As skilled as most of us are in smoothing over moments of awkwardness or tension, there is the infrequent blip on the radar screen where an encounter becomesRead More Working Your Way Through Conflict
Uniting Virtually To Save An Institution
By: David H. King,President & CEO By now you may or may not have heard the saga of Sweet Briar College. The cliff notes are that the college President and Board decided to close the women’s college after 114 years, because they believed it had insurmountable financial problems. The other side of the story isRead More Uniting Virtually To Save An Institution
