by Mazarine | Jan 21, 2020 | Cultivating donors, Fundraising Plan, Leadership, Rank at Work
Feel free to steal some of these fundraising resolutions to make for your own nonprofit in 2020! If you just take ONE- take number one- and number 4 and it will help you increase your unrestricted major gifts in 2020! 1. We will take the leaky bucket assessment on...
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 | Jul 19, 2018 | Conflict, Leadership, Nonprofit Leadership Summit
I hate being vulnerable. That’s what I said last night. I was crying. We get into nonprofits because we are good at solving problems. Or good at taking care of people. We’re taught to think of others first. But there’s a dark side to this. It’s...
by Mazarine | Mar 19, 2018 | Board, Fundraising Career Conference, Hiring a fundraising professional, Leadership, Leadership
Transcript MT: Okay, everybody. Welcome. Today’s conversation with Kishshana is going to be about, basically, how do you keep your good people and what do you lose when they don’t stay? Kishshana. You are so incredible. I don’t know if everybody here knows how...
by Mazarine | Mar 8, 2018 | Board, Finding a job, Fundraising Career Conference, Keeping a job, Leadership, Leadership
“Organizations that prioritize people as a pillar of the long-term strategy lend themselves to healthier and more sustainable outcomes.” -Della Rae 1. What are some ways organizations can engage new team members from day one? The number one reason people...
by Mazarine | Feb 19, 2018 | Conflict, Fundraising Career Conference, Leadership
I was reading a book called the Psychology of Executive Coaching by Bruce Pelletier and I found these methods, and I have to say, WOW. These are mindblowing insights into how our nonprofit workplaces can get so dysfunctional. This is how we lie -even to ourselves In...