by Mazarine | Feb 19, 2019 | Book, Conflict, Leadership, women
Are you looking outside of yourself for the answers? I dare you, right now, to be your own fundraising guru. How does that look? Recently I checked my library account, and I checked out over 100 books in the last year. Did I read them all? No! But did I skim all of...
by Mazarine | Oct 9, 2018 | Book
What is it that will set you up for success in 2019? Is it answering another email? Is it connecting with a person “just to talk”? Or is it increasing your mindpower to help your staff take more initiative and be more successful? Here are five books that can show you...
by Mazarine | Oct 1, 2018 | Book, Conflict, corruption, Generational clash
As we end the Nonprofit Leadership Summit this year, I am struck by how much our current time mirrors 1939. if history is indeed repeating itself, what can we say about the current times, and what does this mean for our tactics in the uncertain future? Well, recently,...
by Mazarine | Oct 23, 2017 | Book, Conflict, Hiring a fundraising professional, Hybrid Nonprofit, Nonprofit Consultant, Social Entrepreneur
Are you friends with failure? I remember at one of my old nonprofit fundraising jobs, making the smallest mistake was the cause for disciplinary action, reprimand, and dire accusations of waste and thoughtlessness. Imagine if we encouraged our fundraising staff to...
by Mazarine | Mar 8, 2017 | Book, Cultivating donors, Marketing
Everyone knows about persuasion, but what about PRE-suasion? Recently I was reading a book called Pre-suasion by Robert Cialdini. You may know his name because he wrote a famous book called Persuasion that people use a lot. Some concepts from this book include...
by Mazarine | Feb 22, 2017 | Book, Fundraising Career Conference, Leadership
What is fundraising GRIT? Grit is a combination of passion and perseverance. According to Bill Damon, a Stanford developmental psychologist, you need these 3 things to develop purpose. A spark- something you’re interested in Observing someone, alive or dead, who...
