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The Coming Collision: When Fundraising Realities Crash into Make Believe Cultures
The Coming Collision: When Fundraising Realities Crash into Make Believe Cultures
By Jim Langley
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How can you encourage innovation and creativity in your department?
Show you're open to innovation by posing provocative questions, by demonstrating a willingness to challenge the status quo, by asking "if you were me..." questions, by encouraging your team to run experiments to test different methods and see which ones work best, and by showing you have a sense of humor particularly about yourself. Create an ethic around workplace conversations that stipulates that anyone can add their ideas to the mix but not subtract from anyone else's, that no one can use their experience or expertise to knock down someone else's idea or assert theirs is better because of their seniority or salary.
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Your non-profit organization has a volunteer retention problem. What can you do to keep them engaged?
Our research reveals the majority of volunteers saying, in effect, "they use too much of my time and too little of my talent". Many volunteers say the real reason they were asked to volunteer was a pretext to increase giving but, giving them little meaningful work is backfiring. Put real issues in front of volunteers. Assign more to task forces and fewer to standing bodies. Approach those with exquisite talents and ask them do pro bono consulting. The advisor board model has been over-used.
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Thank you for this!! I appreciate the three year approach with goals. I am the one setting the bar too high. Great illustration as well!!
Thank you for this!! I appreciate the three year approach with goals. I am the one setting the bar too high. Great illustration as well!!
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Jim Langley getting fundraisers to think differently at the Donor Participation Project masterclass in Baltimore. Generously hosted by the The Y in…
Jim Langley getting fundraisers to think differently at the Donor Participation Project masterclass in Baltimore. Generously hosted by the The Y in…
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Having a Plan and Working the plan!!! High-achieving fundraising leaders and teams know this is key for their success.
Having a Plan and Working the plan!!! High-achieving fundraising leaders and teams know this is key for their success.
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Langley Innovations
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Education
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University of Cincinnati
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Activities and Societies: campus newspaper, literary magazine
English Major, B.A.
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Publications
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Fundraising for Presidents: A Guide
Academic Impressions
See publicationThis book addresses the key questions such as: "How much time should a president devote to fundraising?" "Where is that time best spent?" How can presidents tell what's working and what isn't in evaluating their institution's fundraising effectiveness. Decades of research and practical experience are brought to bear in this insightful and practical guide.
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Comprehensive Fundraising Campaigns: A Guide for Presidents and Boards
Academic Impressions
See publicationThis book reviews the strengths and weaknesses of traditional campaigns in the light of new and emerging realities and provides specific ways they can be modified and enhanced to be much more strategic and effective.
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Fundraising for Boards: A Guide
Academic Impressions
See publicationThis book provides board members with the means to understand, evaluate, and support their institutions fundraising objectives.
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Fundraising for Deans: A Guide
Academic Impressions
See publicationThis books provides deans with a data rich guide for determining where their time and talents are best spent in pursuit of greater fundraising results, how to collaborate with fundraisers, and how to best engage their faculty in building a stronger community of shared purpose.
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The Future of Fundraising: Adapting to Changing Philanthropic Realities
Academic Impressions
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Agree completely. Colleagues should read this, dig in and figure out what we, the experts in the room, must do about the problem. Because it's not…
Agree completely. Colleagues should read this, dig in and figure out what we, the experts in the room, must do about the problem. Because it's not…
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