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# Wild Woman Fundraising

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- [What really rich people want](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/07/21/rich-people/) - How can you get in touch with what a rich person wants? What their deepest fears and desires are?
- [Why do people at work treat me this way?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/07/17/people-work-treat/) - Maybe we're mercenaries. Maybe we're interlopers in the "pure" world of program services. Maybe we're a salesperson, to be treated with disdain. Or maybe we're a mysterious money bag, to be treated with awe and a little fear. I've seen all of these responses and more, when I go in to work at nonprofits. We often make more than program staff. And of course, they feel resentful about that. We, in turn, feel resentful if senior leadership do not fundraise enough, and we are not being paid to raise all or most of the money.
- [Passion for the mission is a MUST!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/07/15/passion-mission/) - picture by Other andrew on flickr
- [Firing Your Development Director? It's not you, it's me!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/07/13/firing-development-director/) - This post is in response to the Compasspoint report, Underdeveloped: A national study of challenges facing nonprofit fundraising. Key findings of the report? REVOLVING DOOR - Development directors are bouncing around and getting fired all the time. HELP WANTED - Organizations aren't finding enough qualified candidates for the jobs. Um, perhaps because they are not
- [Guest Post: 4 methods to practice your nonprofit presentation](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/07/09/guest-post-4-methods-practice-nonprofit-presentation/) - Another practice option is to record yourself on video or audio. This maybe painful but it will be incredibly instructive. You will learn more watching the playback of a video recording than you will in hours of practicing in a mirror.
- [Guest Post: Do you have a presentation coming up?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/07/07/presentation-nonprofit/) - Watch for any odd facial expressions or body twitches or hitches. If you jingle the coins in your pocket, you will drive you audience nuts after a while. If you fuss with your hair, your audience will notice and be distracted. If these are ingrained behaviors, it will take a while to stop doing them. Watch your posture, too. Stand up straight, keep your body open to the audience.
- [Do you want to master fundraising?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/07/03/master-fundraising/) - I was recently reading a book called "Mastery" and it struck me that it could be applied to fundraising. How do you know you've mastered fundraising? Well, you never really know. There's always something more to learn. Whether it's the fact that you've done grants your whole life and you don't know about appeal letters,
- [Happy Birthday!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/07/01/happy-birthday-2/) - Happy Birthday to my blog! 3 years of rabble rousing! What Wild times we have had in the last 3 years! What were some of my most popular posts in the last few years? My mistakes! What were my mistakes in fundraising? SO. Much! CONFLICT! Hey Nonprofiteer, Are you a good consumer? An invitation I
- [Case Study: How can you make your appeal letter better?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/06/29/letter-appeal-case-study/) - If you're like most people right now, you're either sending your appeal letter or writing it furiously, to get it sent out ASAP. The founder of H.O.P.E. Inc, Kenita Pierce-Lewis, asked me to have a look at her appeal letter, to see what I could do with it. On the right you'll see her
- [10 Shocking Scary Secrets of Working in Fundraising](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/06/25/10-shocking-scary-secrets-working-fundraising/) - If you've ever had a crazy fundraising job, you need to read this post. Here's a secret blog post from October 2009, that I put on my private blog, before I had started Wild Woman Fundraising.com. It was just after I finished a crazy job, and so many things on this list rang true for me.
- [23 Fundraising Career Mistakes I Hope You Won’t Make](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/06/23/mistakes-2/) - Recently I was chatting with a lovely reader of this blog, Maureen at MEDA.org, and she advised me to be more human, and share my mistakes. I really liked that advice. And I want to keep showing you how bumpy this fundraising path is. Remember Oscar Wilde, who said, "Most people die of a sort
- [Reader Questions: Snow White and the 7 Faces of Philanthropy](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/06/19/reader-questions/) - And we're answering MORE fantastic reader questions today! This person we will call Queen B. On 08/24/2012 09:01 PM, Queen B wrote: I would love more information on raising money through events (NOT auctions), planned giving, and I have not even the foggiest notion what the seven faces of philanthropy are. My best guess is
- [Are you living in a generous region? The answer may surprise you.](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/06/17/living-generous-region-answer-surprise/) - Nice one Chronicle! On August 20th the Chronicle of philanthropy put out an interactive graph with giving breakdowns for the entire US! We've got some fantastic giving breakdowns here. What regions of the USA are the most generous? WELL! You'd think the south, BUT TAKING OUT RELIGIOUS GIVING The north east! NO WAY! YES! Proof!
- [Reader Questions: How often should you communicate with your supporters?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/06/15/reader-questions-communicate-supporters/) - I’m realizing that the response rate on our donor appeals is not nearly high enough. But do I compare year over year? Mailing over mailing? Some donors will only respond 1x a year, but if I mail them 3x a year, that will affect my response rate. I’d really love to learn more about the numbers behind the data so I can do a proper analysis and then perhaps some potential courses of action will become more clear." Here's my answer:
- [Reader Questions! I want…. EVERYTHING FUNDRAISING! Okay then.](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/06/11/reader-questions-fundraising-2/) - Recently I asked my most fantabulous enewsletter subscribers (if you want to be one, click here) what they wanted to learn more about, because, let's face it, Most people don't plan to get into fundraising. What can you do? Except ask questions about stuff you don't know? Of course, you can't ask questions if you
- [Reader Questions: How to get businesses to give you donations in 3 steps?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/06/09/reader-questions-businesses-give-donations/) - Do you want to get answers to these questions? 1) Cold calling on small businesses for donations - does this work? I'm not having much luck. 2) Getting your foot into large major corporations - noone on the board is well connected. 3) Business networking - most of the chamber/professional events I go to have coupon book sellers, etc -- READ THIS POST!
- [Part 3: How to Send an Appeal Letter](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/06/05/how-to-send-appeal-letter/) - Today we're going to talk about how to SEND your appeal letter.
- [If Your Nonprofit’s Donations Were a Dollar, 75 cents of it would be…](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/06/03/nonprofits-donations-dollar-75-cents-2/) - from individuals. So focusing on your individual giving plan, not just grants or not just events, is the way to go. Specifically major gifts. These are two new charts from GivingUSA about 2011 giving. Religion, as usual, takes the lion's share of giving. And why do you think that is? They ask every week! Could
- [Part 2: How to Write an Appeal Letter 101](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/06/01/part-2-write-appeal-letter-101/) - What should your first paragraph look like? To be effective and eye-catching, your first paragraph needs to have the word “YOU.” This is the word most people listen to. You, and their name. If you can repeat their name several times in the letter, it will grab their attention even more.
- [Part 1: What is an Appeal Letter?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/05/28/what-is-an-appeal-letter/) - Do you like writing email or letters? Do you remember the joy of receiving a beautiful letter, and sending one in return? If so, this post is all about spreading your joy, and helping turn your writing skills to letters asking people to support your nonprofit.
- [Are You Raising Money for Your Library?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/05/26/raising-money-library/) - How do you start to raise money for the library? Start by thinking about what your library represents in your community. What is your brand? How do people view you? If you don't know, you need to survey people. Get a survey next to the checkout desk and ask people to fill it out while
- [INTERVIEW: With Craig Linton, The Fundraising Detective!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/05/22/interview-craig-linton-fundraising-detective/) - Why am I interviewing Craig? BECAUSE man! He's a fabulous researcher for fundraising and always has good links on fundraising articles, AND I just shared a train compartment with him last month, and he was all "HEY!" And I was all, "HEY! Can I interview you for my journal, we could write a monograph" I
- [What Is Your Vocabulary and How Does It Affect Your Donors?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/05/20/linguistics-of-fundraising/) - I took a workshop last weekend about boundaries and one of the things the trainer said struck me. She said, "New language won't solve all your problems and make all of your messy relationships neat and sanitized, but it CAN start to help you think differently about how to solve problems."
- [How To Speak Your Donor's Language? Guest post by Lisa Kelly Zuba (Part 2)](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/05/18/speak-donors-language-guest-post-lisa-kelly-zuba-part-2/) - Lisa Kelly Zuba is a smart, funny Major Gifts fundraiser and owner of BiZZantik, a nonprofit consulting firm. I asked her to write a series of posts about major gifts. Today, we have the second one! Thank you Lisa! How To Speak Your Donor's Language? Start from where you are. Now that you know
- [[INTERVIEW] 8 Questions Answered about Online Fundraising!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/05/14/interview-8-questions-answered-online-fundraising/) - 5. What are some email marketing strategies that you've found that helps people give? As with all of our marketing strategies - test, learn, then tweak. Our approach is to continually optimize by applying a test and learn strategy. Test subject lines, asks, copy, images etc. to drive increased donations. Email software: We are currently investigating different email deployment options. We have certain limitations with our current email system, which is why we are exploring new options. Our learnings in this area are minimal. We have noticed that any email subject line or header in an e-newsletter that offers a value-add to our readers has a higher click-through rate. A recipe always performs well.
- [INTERVIEW: Lisa Taylor of Challenge Factory Talks Your Career Transition](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/05/12/interview-lisa-taylor-challenge-factory-talks-career-transition/) - Lisa Taylor, Founder, Challenge Factory
- [Libraries, what are they for? A Story & 5 Fundraising Ideas for Libraries](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/05/08/libraries-story-5-fundraising-ideas-libraries/) - 1. Take down the names of everyone who checks out a book at your library. Mail them once a year, at Christmas time, and ask them to give to support your library.
- [Which of these solution focused questions can you ask today?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/05/06/solution-focused-questions-today/) - Lately, thanks to my friend Christina Attard, I've been reading a book called Fry the Monkeys by Alan Kay. In it, I am learning about how to talk about solutions instead of just problems. I think it's a useful lesson for us as nonprofit leaders and managers, when people come up to us in a
- [12 Tips on How to be a Good Nonprofit Leader: Shackleton Style!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/05/04/12-tips-good-nonprofit-leader-shackleton-style/) - The last several years, I've somewhat lost my faith in some nonprofit leaders but in this past year, I've found my faith again that good leaders DO exist. Shackleton and his men succeeded against overwhelming odds, and arrived safely back in England. Remember, you can also exhibit these traits, even if you're not currently in
- [Let's hear it for Asian Female Nonprofit Leaders!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/04/30/hear-asian-female-nonprofit-leaders/) - Today's post is all about fantastic Asian Female Nonprofit Leaders! Including Kiran Bedi, who was the subject of a documentary entitled "Yes Madam Sir"
- [Would you like to learn how to grade your boss? Here's your checklist](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/04/28/learn-grade-boss-checklist/) - Are you a nonprofit employee? Do you want a clear system to figure out if your nonprofit boss is doing right by your organization or not? Or are you a nonprofit board member? How do you provide oversight and make sure that your organization stays on track? Do you need a model to figure out
- [Which of These 20 Bad Traits Holds Your Nonprofit Leader Back?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/04/24/bad-nonprofit-leader-20-traits/) - Are you in a struggle to get your job done and being held back by a manager who just doesn't GET what you do or why you do it? They might be displaying some of these bad management traits (I gleaned this list from Goldsmith's "What Got You Here Won't Get You There": 1.
- [Are you fundraising for Africa? Read this!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/04/22/fundraising-africa-read/) - I am so excited to present to you my interview with Charlotte Beauvoisin, who writes Diary of a Muzungu, a UK citizen working in Uganda. Her blog has been featured on Lonely Planet since 2009. For several years, she worked as a volunteer with the Ugandan Conservation Foundation, and now works in a tourism company
- [Do you want to sit on a nonprofit board?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/04/20/sit-nonprofit-board/) - If yes, then click on through to BoardNet. http://www.boardnetusa.org/public/home.asp If you need a little more WHY: Why would you want to sit on a nonprofit board? Because you believe in the mission. But also, it's a good way to move on up in your nonprofit career. Have you ever known an executive director who previously
- [Will You Look Back With Me on 2011?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/04/16/looking-back-at-2011/) - So last year I did a post about looking back, thinking about what has happened, taking stock, and reflecting. This year I ask you to join me in reflecting back on what this year has brought for you. Ask yourself these questions: What's the big idea of this year? What am I most proud of
- [Who will listen to the dead?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/04/14/listen-dead-2/) - Today's post is for every person reading this blog who is working to help the dead be heard. Whether you're working at a domestic violence shelter and you work for each woman who is murdered before she can leave for good, or perhaps you're working at an environmental nonprofit that helps people cut down on
- [Look! Anatomy of an Effective Annual Appeal](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/04/10/appeal-letter-2011/) - Are you getting towards the end of the year and just totally scratching your head on what you're going to write to make people want to give to you? Once I saw a book on the shelves in a bookstore that was called, I believe, "How NOT To Write a Novel" and I picked it
- [Dear Reader... Can I make a confession to you?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/04/08/dear-reader-confession/) - OK, Radical honesty time! I'm not a catholic, but here's my confession....
- [I just realized something.](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/04/06/wild-womans-guide-to-social-media/) - So these past seven months I've been working on a new book. And it was going to be called 3-D Reputation Engine. I was pushing myself towards an end of August deadline, and now I'm glad I didn't make it. Because we were on a walk with the dog in the Greenbelt in Austin a
- [Are you managing up? Where does that come from?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/04/02/managing-up/) - Have you ever known a boss or a person in management who just seemed to be there by luck, not by skill or management ability?
- [What is a host-beneficiary relationship, and how can you work it for your nonprofit?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/03/31/hostbeneficiary-relationship-work-nonprofit/) - So you're looking into making multiple streams of income for your nonprofit. You've got your events going. You've got your grants program going. You've got your appeal letter out. How ELSE can you make money for your nonprofit? Think about who you can partner with in a host-beneficiary relationship. This could be part of cause
- [9 Ways that Charities Get Grey-Sky Thinking](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/03/27/greysky-thinking-charities-2/) - So Blue-Sky thinking is being overly optimistic. Grey sky thinking is rather less so. Nonprofits seem to sit on their own hands rather than take a risk with anything having to do with spending money. How do Charities engage in grey-sky thinking? Let me count the ways. 1. We've never had any money, and we
- [What does your board report look like?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/03/25/board-report/) - Here's where I get all "Transparency rocks!" And show you one of my board reports. Also, if you want to rebrand your nonprofit, you are going to love the Free Nonprofit Brand Report from Harvard University that I'm including here. You're welcome.
- [6 ways you can be an effective nonprofit leader](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/03/23/6-ways-effective-nonprofit-leader/) - Have you ever worked with a nonprofit leader that just would say NO to everything you suggested? Did you ever think, 'Oh M. G. I can't take it anymore" and run out? Did you ever want to partner with other nonprofits but feel stymied because your organization wasn't nimble enough to take advantage of opportunities
- [Do you have ten stories?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/03/19/ten-stories/) - How can you help people start to know, like, and trust you, and want to hire you for that next position? You need to learn to tell stories about yourself that illustrate your traits you want to be known for. For example, you could be lazy, but also smart. You could be impatient, but also
- [When you say, “I’ll try,” I hear, “I’m not going to do this”](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/03/17/try-versus-do-2/) - First off, if you aren't too busy at 4pm EST today, tune in to listen to my interview with Carmen Carrozza on AM 1490! Here's the link! Ever had a peer who tried to renege on their obligation to do a task they'd promised to do for months? And then they didn't want a consequence for their action? Okay, so let's say this person promised to write a grant. And then, over and over, they didn't do it. They made excuse after excuse. They might say, "Well, anyway, look at that thing over there!" And try to distract you to defuse your argument.
- [The Inner Game of Writing Your Appeal Letter: Part 2](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/03/13/game-writing-appeal-letter-part-2/) - "The easier it is for people to understand, the better it is, I think. If you can capture something that you feel is real and express it in a way that a lot of people can understand, that's rare and there's something about that that makes a piece have a certain kind of life. And if it enters into popular culture and it's not just about popular culture, then from a writer's point of view, that's a satisfying achievement. " -Paul Simon
- [The Inner Game of Writing Your Appeal Letter: Part 1](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/03/11/game-writing-appeal-letter-part-1/) - "I have to penetrate this chattering and this meaningless debate that is occupying most of my attention. I have to come up with some one thing that really speaks to my deepest interest. Otherwise I nod off in one way or another. So to find that urgent...(thing) takes a lot of version and a lot of work and a lot of sweat." -Leonard Cohen
- [Interview with a planned giver, Paul Nazareth: What’s your fundraising journey?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/03/09/interview-planned-giver-paul-nazareth-fundraising-journey-2/) - Get out from behind your desk, and brandish a lightsaber OF TRUTH! Interested in a fundraising career with a canadian perspective? Read this post.
- [Are you pressuring your board? Guest post by Alexandra Peters](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/03/05/pressuring-boardguest-post-alexandra-peters/) - Alexandra Peters is a nonprofit consultant, educator, writer, and believer in the profound importance of effecting social change in the not for profit sector. For thirty years, Ms. Peters has worked to make the nonprofit world better. Today she does me the honor of guest-blogging! And apparently, she knew me when I was just a
- [Do you want to be a nonprofit consultant? Read this interview with Desiree Adaway](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/03/03/desiree-adaway-interview/) - Desiree Adaway designs programs and strategies that create revenue and advocates for organizations. She has served in senior-level roles in the nonprofit and grant management sectors for such renowned organizations as Habitat for Humanity International, and Rotary International. Her industry expertise also includes information technology, youth focused non-profit, social justice non-profit, and faith based organizations.
- [When nonprofits squeeze you dry](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/02/27/nonprofits-squeeze-you-dry/) - Have you ever been talking with a potential nonprofit client, only to have them not value your hard-won advice, based on your years of experience? Have you ever offered a lot of advice for free, only to not get the contract in the end? Have you really given your ALL to a client, only to
- [AUDIO: How to get a nonprofit job: My interview on The Career Clinic](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/02/25/audio-nonprofit-job-interview-career-clinic/) - Don't feel like reading today? Then just listen. I'm doing interviews on career radio shows lately about how you can get a nonprofit job, the nonprofit field, and whether, for example, you should go and get that Master's in Nonprofit Organizations or not. Click here to go download my podcast with Maureen Anderson of the
- [Guest post: Mary Cahalane on Thank You Letters!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/02/23/guest-post-mary-cahalane-thankyou-letters/) - I have the pleasure of introducing a new guest post by Mary Cahalane. I met her recently on Twitter and learned more about her insight on Pamela Grow’s newsletter. I just loved what she had to say, so I asked her to guest post for me, here. Mary, you rock. Mary Cahalane is currently development
- [Must Not Sleep! Must Warn Others! And other tips from fundraising hip hopistas](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/02/19/sleep-warn-tips-fundraising-hip-hopistas/) - Must not sleep! Must warn others! What keeps you up at night? All the work you need to get done? What makes your cause truly URGENT? How do you communicate this urgency? I mean, obviously, tattoos would do it for people you met in person, but since you're not cutting albums, how ELSE man? What must you warn people about? What happens when your cause is not there? What happens to people before they receive your services?
- [How do you turn an accidental donor into an ally? Part 2](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/02/17/turn-accidental-donor-ally-part-2/) - Donors crave recognition and attention, most of all, AMIRITE?
- [How do you turn an accidental donor into an ally? Part 1](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/02/13/turn-accidental-donor-ally/) - Hey, ever wondered how to get more donors for your cause? What have you done about that? I'm reading a book right now that I think would help you find new donors and help them want to give to your organization. It's called "Make your Contacts Count" by Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon. It's all
- [Reader Questions: How can I get funding for a think tank?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/02/11/funding-think-tanks/) - I recently got an email from a reader asking me how I would fundraise for a think tank in a country that does not have the best history of democracy or political discourse. This is my response. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for writing! As far as I know, usually American think tanks are funded by a few
- [Do we really have too many nonprofits? Citation needed!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/02/09/nonprofits-citation-needed/) - I mean, come on! We have tech for-profits starting up every day, and no one says to them, "There are too many tech startups! Cut it out already, there's not enough need!"
- [Nonprofit Governance: What's your flavor?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/02/03/nonprofit-governance-flavor/) - Fun Fact: I used to live in Korea, and while I was there, I learned about the many flavors ice cream can be in foreign countries. Such as Durian. Red bean. Kimchi. Lychee. Such variety! So have you ever seen a board member go from board straight to executive director of the same charity, without any previous nonprofit experience? As ice cream flavors go, I think that's probably kimchi rat surprise.
- [What Grants Can, and Can’t Do for your Nonprofit](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/02/05/grants-nonprofit-2/) - And I said, "So, you think that getting a grant is like dialing for dollars huh? That a grant will just plop into your lap and Boom you'll have a computer lab? I'll look for you, but here's something you should know, first." grant priorities
- [Are you between two worlds?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/01/30/nonprofit-consulting-professional-entrepreneur/) - Rosetta Thurman said, "I'm no longer a nonprofit professional. I'm an entrepreneur." And she articulated something that I've been interested in addressing for awhile, but didn't know how to say.
- [What I was doing when I wasn't here](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/01/28/what-i-was-doing-when-i-wasnt-here/) - Usually I write these super upbeat and newsy emails to my friends and family and yesterday I just thought, "Okay, screw it, I'm going to share my good news with everyone who reads my blog, too!" Last week, which already feels a lifetime away, I was away in Portland and NYC, having a couple of photoshoots. What were those photoshoots for?
- [Reader Questions: Fundraising for a park-How can you identify visitors?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/01/26/park-how-id-visitors-fundraising/) - Hey Mazarine, The issues I'm finding toughest to crack right now are around squeezing the most out of small budgets while making the most of new channels. To some extent, thus my recent Twitter learning experiment! We have more than 800,000 people coming to our parks and events every year, but mostly we don't know
- [400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined.](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/01/22/400-americans-wealth-americans-combined/) - Did you see Michael Moore's speech? Transcript below. America Is NOT Broke by Michael Moore MichaelMoore.com March 5, 2011 America is not broke. Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not
- [What does an LGBTQ nonprofit organization do?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/01/20/what-do-lgbtq-organizations-do/) - In 2001, a friend of mine came out to me. He had never told anyone he was gay. He was 20. He didn't know where any resources were, despite living near Provincetown and Boston his whole life. Since I didn't know a lot about various LGBTQ organizations, I pointed him to the now sadly defunct Planet Out (which now redirects to Gay.com), where I thought he might be able to find more people in the community. Then we went to Jacques Cabaret, a piano bar, but we couldn't get in because I forgot my ID. A reader emailed me recently and asked me to please please blog about something that she sees a lot, namely, people not understanding why we have all of these LGBTQ organizations, and why they are different, why we need them.
- [Why Online Fundraising is like Ice cream!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/01/16/why-fundraising-ice-cream/) - Before we get down to it, if you are in Austin, and interested in being a more effective fundraiser, we still have a couple of spots left in my Lean Fundraising workshop at the Center for Nonprofits tomorrow. Get on it! This post is 3 posts for the price of one!
- [Yeah, you know you need to learn how to delegate, how about right now?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/01/14/yeah-learn-delegate/) - So, I'm going to speak it out loud, this is the dirty little secret of our profession, as development staff, as fundraisers.
- [Managing up when your boss is not a fundraiser!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/01/12/managing-up-boss-fundraiser/) - If your boss does not understand fundraising, give them a 2 minute explanation of how fundraising works. Show them that they'll get the best bang for their buck from major gifts, and individuals, and the least from foundations, corporations, and events. There are graphs from Giving USA and Philanthropy Reports that go into detail about
- [Reader Questions: Humane Society Fundraising, how to overcome: "I only give to people"](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/01/08/reader-questions-humane-society-fundraising-overcome-give-people/) - I would make the case by saying, "We are speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves." Ask them if you would ask a baby to speak up for itself if it was being abused by parents. Ask if you would tell a person who was mentally handicapped to speak up for themselves. If it's cruelty that you oppose and dignity that you promote, show how these values are universal. The more you get in front of people and teach them about the beauty of being a pet owner, and the sadness of an abused pet, the more money you will get. It's all about asking, all the time.
- [Reader Questions: How can you get unrestricted funding?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/01/06/reader-questions-unrestricted-funding/) - Dear Mazarine, Raising and managing millions annually through grants, but most of it is restricted to specific projects and we do want to increase our unrestricted/general operating funds (doesn't everyone?) What would you suggest?"
- [How many stories should you put in your newsletter or appeal?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2026/01/02/stories-put-newsletter-appeal/) - This last week, Katya Anderson wrote about the numbing of our compassion when we have heard lots of statistics and lots of stories. I was just reading about this trend in "Half the Sky" and it frankly shocked me, that people could care less and less about greater quantities of people, the more stories that
- [Reader Questions: Bootstrap your nonprofit startup in 4 steps!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/31/bootstrap-your-nonprofit-startup/) - Hi Molly! First off, I love that you're helping women get wheels. When I worked in a domestic violence shelter, this is something that would hamper women in getting the services that they needed, whether baby-sitting, counseling, welfare, etc. A car can mean the difference between a job and no job, and between a woman having to return to an abuser or not. Thank you for recognizing this.
- [Fire the assholes, and company culture will change](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/29/look-busy-boss-is-coming/) - Have you ever worked for a big corporation? Did you feel burned out on that lifestyle? What were some contributing factors, if so? Want me to take a guess? I just read a blog post by Pamela Slim from Escape from Cubicle Nation, "An open letter to CXOs all over the world". Here are the
- [Wow, I’m really angry.  What is internalized oppression?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/25/women-beating-women-2/) - I believe that we need to end rape and gender-based violence in the Congo. Lately I've been reading "Half the Sky" and realizing something needs to be addressed.
- [Dear Western Donors: "For God's Sake, Please Just Stop"](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/23/dear-western-donors-gods-sake-stop/) - "We are tired of being the subject of aid." "We have to reform our economies, change our leadership, and be more democratic, and we have to do it ourselves." -Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Finance Minister in Nigeria
- [Forget about your board](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/19/fuck-your-board/) - If you're fundraising for a small nonprofit, you have probably tried, over and over and over again, begging, cajoling, pleading with your board to fundraise. It's probably causing you no small amount of frustration that they won't do it.
- [Reader Questions: Do you need more money in the mail? 3 steps](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/17/money-mail-3-steps/) - Recently, a fabulous newsletter subscriber from Tasmania wrote to me, (Hi Carmen!) and asked me how she could improve her direct mail results. To this I say, everyone has a different key to unlock their hearts. Phil Cubeta, a teacher of philanthropy at American University in Pennsylvania, asks donors, "Aside from your family, what do
- [Are you a nonprofiteer AND a good consumer?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/15/nonprofiteer-good-consumer/) - Have you ever stopped and asked yourself, "Would my donors have more attention and money to give to my cause if they weren't constantly buying new products and being distracted by new advertisements?"
- [On Becoming Fearless: Sady Doyle edition](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/11/fearless-sady-doyle-edition/) - Marin Alsop, Music Director for Baltimore Symphony Orchestra "If everybody just loves you, you're probably not doing a very good job."
- [Can you help me out? I want to ask you questions](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/09/questions-survey/) - Take the survey here!
- [A Look Back at 2010](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/05/look-back-at-2010/) - This is a long post. A taking stock. Kick back and grab that mug of something hot and read on!
- [Grope-a-palooza and what are nonprofits doing about it?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/03/grope-a-palooza/) - Every time a TSA operative asks me if he or she can “take a look in my bag,” I say: “Sure, if you can show me a warrant.” -Cindy Sheehan "Do I want a nice dose of radiation and a somewhat nude picture of myself sent to a server somewhere (TSA was caught lying about the ability of machines to store images. Of course they can store images!)? Or perhaps I’d like to be sexually assaulted (there’s really no other word for it) by a frustrated TSA official? Or perhaps I’d rather just do a video conference. Or drive, if the distance is short enough. Or just change my plans." -Reuben Swartz
- [8 ways to be a good board member](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/12/01/8-ways-good-board-member/) - 1. Show up to the meetings. 2. Learn about fundraising. If you don't know anything, admit your ignorance and learn right now. 3. Convince your friends and colleagues to give to your nonprofit. 4. Question junior staff members about the nonprofit and how you can help. 5. Maintain close ties to people under the Executive
- [Dorothy Day Was a Right On Woman!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/11/27/dorothy-day-woman/) - I'm not Catholic or anything, but Dorothy Day was pretty damn special. Ms. Day was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of Distributism. She also described herself as a Christian anarchist. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic
- [My interview with Michael Chatman, the Maverick Philanthropist, here!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/11/25/interview-michael-chatman-maverick-philanthropist/) - For anyone who missed my interview with the Maverick Philanthropist, Michael Chatman last week, Here it is! Michael Chatman interviews Mazarine Treyz-Interview on 880 AM Miami We talked about fundraising, motivating boards, nonprofit success strategies, how to get people to care about your cause, and more! An instructive 20 minute talk. (with commercial breaks, 30
- [What to do when someone wants to “Pick Your Brain”?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/11/21/pick-brain-2/) - Have you ever met someone who wanted to "Pick your brain"? How did you respond to them? A Case Study: I met this guy at a social media networking meeting last week. He seemed friendly enough, and wanted to tell me about new mobile websites he was building, which could have mobile giving built into
- [So You Want to Be A Nonprofit Consultant -By Mike Bacon](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/11/19/nonprofit-consultant-mike-bacon/) - So You Want To Be A Consultant If you want to be a nonprofit consultant, check out this presentation by Mike Bacon of Bacon Lee and Associates in San Antonio, Texas. So you want to be a consultantView more presentations from Mazarine Treyz.
- [How can you become a nonprofit consultant?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/11/17/nonprofit-consultant/) - Have you been having a hard time finding a nonprofit job? Do you have years of experience that can translate to helping nonprofits, but no idea how to go about getting a foothold in this field? Have you thought about becoming a nonprofit consultant? Yesterday at the last Nonprofit Career Club meeting, we talked with Mike Bacon of Bacon Lee and Associates about becoming a nonprofit consultant. Here's what he shared with us.
- [Should Your CEO have a blog?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/11/13/should-ceo-blog/) - So I just got around to reading my Association of Fundraising Professionals magazine from May. Um. Well, the cover was boring! White fruit? LOL WUT. I was busy editing my book! What? ANYWAY. There's a huge section on online marketing and fundraising! Way to get with the program AFP! Well done! There's an article, called,
- [Making your Major Gifts Call](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/11/11/making-major-gifts-call/) - This is part three in a series of ten on how to make major gift asks. To read part one, Starting your Major Gifts Program, go here. To read part two, Who is a major donor, go here. After you've researched your prospect, through combing your database, or through looking at annual reports of other,
- [Who is a major donor?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/11/07/major-donor/) - This is part two in a series of ten on major gifts for your nonprofit. To read part one, go here! What are major gifts? Gifts that make a significant difference for your organization. Why pursue leadership or major gifts? Because this is the way you can get money in the shortest amount of time
- [Starting Your Major Gifts Program](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/11/05/starting-major-gifts-program/) - This is part one in a series of ten on major gifts. What are major gifts? Gifts that make a significant difference for your organization. Why pursue leadership or major gifts? Because this is the way you can get money in the shortest amount of time with the least cash outlay by your nonprofit. What
- [Now is the time to send your Holiday Appeal!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/11/03/now-is-the-time-to-send-your-holiday-appeal/) - So how to make sure your holiday appeal works for your organization? Does it have: 1. Testimonials? 2. Stories? 3. Pictures? 4. Stats? Have you segmented your appeal to donors who give for certain reasons? For instance, if you are sending this letter to people who give to your nonprofit through their faith-based institution, are
- [What I learned about the Texas Nonprofit Sector](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/10/30/learned-texas-nonprofit-sector/) - Wow! Barry Silverberg, President and CEO of TANO, (Texas Association for Nonprofit Organizations) knows a LOT! Here's what we talked about yesterday at the Nonprofit Career Club in Austin. Statistics on Texas nonprofits There are 103,300 tax exempt entities in Texas. 68,176 are 501 c 3 organizations. 7,300 are private foundations. 95% have revenues of
- [Does your job satisfy you?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/09/30/job-satisfy/) - Today's post is a bit of a departure. Often, I'm on this blog, telling you how it is, or finding other people to tell you how it is. Today, like Socrates, I've got questions for you. Lots of questions. Consider even one of these questions, and leave a comment. I would LOVE to know if
- [52 Ways to Fundraise](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/10/28/52-ways-to-fundraise/) - Here are 52 ways to fundraise, one for each week of the year! Of these, which ones do you think yield the most money? Which ones, the least? If you have any to add, please leave a comment! 1. Quarterly Appeal letter 2. Grants 3. Your Annual Report 4. Sell Fruit 5. Old-time photograph booth
- [Making Money on the Side Part Two](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/10/24/making-money-side-part-2/) - Do you want to make money on the side? As hardworking nonprofit employees, or ex-nonprofit employees, we don't have a lot saved up for retirement. Perhaps, we don't have ANYTHING saved up for retirement. And that's kind of par for the course for our entire country. We try to live within our means. We try
- [Which nonprofits are helping preserve languages?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/10/22/nonprofits-helping-preserve-languages/) - Do you speak more than one language? Do you speak three or four? Which ones do you speak? I speak English, French, and some Indonesian and Korean. This video shows Bob Holman, one of my favorite teachers, talking with griot, going to Timbuktu, chasing dying languages and traditions. Griot are keepers of West African oral
- ["Charity Doesn't Solve Anything" -Mexican Billionaire](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/10/20/charity-solve-mexican-billionaire/) - So, you work for a nonprofit your whole life, in the hopes that something will change from your efforts, that your cause will have made a dent in the problem. If you stay with a nonprofit long enough, you can start to see, with your own eyes, that your organization and the partnerships you've built
- [Real Life Horrors for Halloween](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/10/16/horrors-halloween-congolese-women-rape/) - On Saturday I went into four different craft stores, and Halloween decorations were everywhere. "Boo!" said a banner. "SCARY SAVINGS!" screamed a poster. "Horrors!" yelled the candy packaging. Witches, vampires and Fairy princess costumes hung waiting for people to put them on. Horrors indeed. Anyone wanting some real life horrors, not some made up Hollywood horrors, should look no further than the Democratic Republic of Congo. Over the past 20 years, hundreds of thousands of women have been raped.
- [Why Major Gifts Fundraising is Like Hosting a Dinner Party: Guest Post by Cassie Gruenstein](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/10/14/major-gifts-guest-post-cassie-gruenstein/) - "I met Cassie several months ago through a mutual friend. When I met her, I found out that she has a fundraising consulting business, and specializes in major gifts and communications planning and coaching. You can hire her here. Recently, she produced of a Month Without Monsanto., a project highlighted on Alternetand in YES magazine,
- [Seriously? Aqua Buddha?!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/10/10/aqua-buddha/) - You may have seen the GQ article about Rand Paul's excursion into violence during his time at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, when he forced a woman to take a bong hit, and then, tied her up, took her to a river, and then, made her get on her hands and knees, and pledge allegiance to "Aqua Buddha."
- [Ask Mazarine: Best Answers on LinkedIn](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/10/08/mazarine-best-answers-linkedin/) - You've Got Answers! According to LinkedIn, I'm an expert in Nonprofit Fundraising, Philanthropy, Work-life Balance, Non-profit Management, Social Enterpreneurship, and Public Relations. Here are some questions where my answer got chosen as best answer: "Facebook - serious concerns regarding privacy, where would all the 'facebook' users go? Plenty of the industry voices are calling for
- [Exclusive Interview with Kim Klein, fundraising author, editor, consultant and thought leader](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/10/06/interview-kim-klein/) - What causes do you wish that more foundations would make a priority? Foundations have so little money that I don’t think about them very much.
- [But They All Want 5 Years of Experience!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/10/02/5-years-experience/) - You've Got Advice! Yesterday, I asked YOU some questions about your career. Today, I'm answering reader questions. This question struck me as pretty common with the people I've met through running the job club. How do I get experience in doing a job, so that I can get hired for the job? If you want
- [Young Nonprofit Leaders: Interview with Claire Sale!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/09/26/interview-claire-sale/) - This is part three in my Young Nonprofit Leaders Series, where I ask different leaders who they are, what they do, what they think Gen Y is like, and what they see as the future of the sector. Read Part 1, an interview with Meredith Maples, here, and part 2, an interview with Larissa DeLuna, here.
- [Are you consulting for free? O RLY?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/09/24/consulting-free-rly/) - So you're a bleeding heart hippie liberal who wants to heal the world. That's why you got into this field, right? To change the world. There are so many deserving nonprofits and people, all who need YOUR HELP!
- [Young Fabulous Nonprofit Leader Interview with Larissa DeLuna!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/09/22/interview-larissa-deluna/) - This is part two of my Young Fabulous Nonprofit Leaders Interview Series! People write a lot about Gen Y, but what about asking Gen Y what WE think? What is this leadership crisis all about anyway? How can we manage Gen Y? Is there some defining characteristic managers need to be aware of? Let's get
- [Do you have a map of your resources?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/09/18/map-resources/) - I recently met up with Ana Ottman of Red Dress Studios, to talk about business mentorship. She had some wonderful advice, and through her, I found this map. It's a mind map of all entrepreneur resources in Austin. I love it, and I think you could make one too. Whether you're a domestic violence agency
- [Does fundraising prepare you to be an entrepreneur?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/09/16/fundraising-prepare-entrepreneur/) - In this last year, I've stepped away from fundraising full time and started to grow different businesses. And I've done fairly well, which makes me wonder, are fundraising and entrepreneurship similar? Could fundraising be the first step to starting your own business? Let's take a look. Fundraising: You learn how to market your nonprofit with
- [Invest in Technology, and Empower Your Donors to Fundraise for You!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/09/12/invest-technology-empower-donors-fundraise/) - How can you empower your donors to make something new? How can you help turn your donors into entrepreneurs for your cause? What's more exciting than starting something new, and making it your own? George Stevens recently posted on R.E. Foundations, the Council on Foundation's blog, about entrepreneurial donors. He wrote, “...community foundations are a platform for the nonprofit ecosystem. Do we encourage donor innovation using our platform? Do we engage the entrepreneurial donors in our communities? To fail to do so is to be left behind in the recovery of the nonprofit sector.”
- [Are you a membership based nonprofit? 3 ways to be better](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/09/10/membership-based-nonprofit-3-ways/) - I don't usually go in for membership. I find that whatever the cost is, it's usually not followed up with enough concrete benefits. However, there is ONE organization that I am a member of, which exceeds all my expectations, and I think it would help you to tell you about it.
- [How much of an impact do we have?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/09/08/charity-impact-nonprofit-video/) - Whenever this downturn is getting you down, remember. YOU HAVE AN IMPACT. Whenever you think that no one understands your struggle, remember these statistics. 1 in 57 people works in the food service industry, while 1 in 10 people works in the nonprofit industry.
- [Do you want to learn how to speak more effectively?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/09/04/learn-speak-effectively/) - This is a map of Texas, and how I drove all over it! Red line is actual route, Blue line is the route for squares.
- [The Wild Woman's Guide to Fundraising Journey!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/09/02/wild-womans-guide-fundraising-printing-espresso-book-machine-2/) - So on Friday, September 10th, I got my book, The Wild Woman's Guide to Fundraising, printed on the Espresso Book Machine! There's a reason I look so happy in that picture! This proof represents three years of work. The Beginning: I read Tim Ferriss's "The 4 Hour Workweek" in 2007, and I thought, "How can
- [Creating Multiple Streams of Income For Your Nonprofit](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/08/29/creating-multiple-streams-income-nonprofit/) - Lately I've been talking with a few nonprofits, trying to figure out how to get them to expand their thinking around fundraising. A few nonprofits seem to think that fundraising is mainly grants, events, appeals, and major gifts. But it can be so much more! In addition to grants, appeals, events, major gifts, etc, what
- [Who do you think you're talking to? Managing Gen Y](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/08/27/managing-gen-y/) - Gen Y has been accused of a lot of things. Ego-centricity. Being not able to finish things. Needing a trophy for everything. I disagree with labeling people Gen Y. The challenge with classifying people according to arbitrary periods of time is that you will find that many people, perhaps too many, are exceptions to the rules you've laid out for a "generation."
- [What dream do your donors have?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/08/25/dream-donors/) - Do you know what keeps your donors up at night? Do you know how they've tried to solve this issue in other ways? Do you know what their dream is? Do you know their ideal solution? Say you're a museum in a small city. Your donors may come to you because they fear they are
- [What's your safety net?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/08/21/safety-net/) - What is your safety net? Who can help you when the chips are down? Here are two ways to create your own safety net.
- [What makes people want to give to you?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/08/19/what-makes-people-want-to-give/) - Five things can make people want to give to you, according to Robert Cialdini's book, Influence. Reciprocation This is also known as the give and take and take. If you give a donor a flower, they might feel more inclined to give money to your organization. This is also the way the free sample works,
- [Marketing Your Nonprofit: 5 More Things to Learn from The Long Tail](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/08/15/market-nonprofit-long-tail-learn/) - There's a reason you've never seen a full picture of me on here! Yeah, I've got a long tail. It's kind of got a "Puff The Magic Dragon" vibe. But I roll with it. So, in the spirit of my long tail, here's what I learned from Chris Anderson's bestseller The Long Tail, and how this applies to your nonprofit!
- [How to respond when a manager yells at you in front of staff](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/08/13/respond-manager-ostracizes-front-staff/) - Perhaps this has happened to you. You're doing your work, and suddenly your boss comes over and starts screaming at you. Then they barge back into their office. You wonder what just happened. Perhaps you start to cry. Perhaps you yell back. Perhaps you start to search for another job. How can you prevent verbal attacks? How can you stop the verbal attacker in their tracks? How can you make them understand that they are not going to get the rise out of you that they want?
- [Development 301: Managing & Motivating Others, Part 3](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/08/11/development-301-managing-motivating-part-3/) - Hi! Thanks for reading this series on how to manage and motivate others by discovering their strengths and helping them find tasks that they can excel in! These descriptions are taken from the book, "Now, Discover your Strengths" by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton, and I am indebted to them for their years of research
- [How you can be an Executive Director](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/08/07/how-can-i-be-executive-director/) - Have you ever wanted to lead a nonprofit or charity? What about starting one? Today we talked with Sue Thornton, former Executive Director for Texas Dentists for Healthy Smiles, and former Executive Director for Texas IMPACT. She managed three statewide organizations with strong legislative ties. She would advocate for issues for poor women and children,
- [Development 301: Managing and Motivating Others Part 2](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/08/05/motivating-part-2/) - How can you discover your strengths? How do you manage people? Have you taken the Gallup assessment, which was given to over 2 million people, and provided insights on 34 types you might have to manage at work? This can be an invaluable tool as you help people discover their strengths, and focus on these
- [Development 301: Managing & Motivating Others Part 1](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/08/01/manager-people-motivated/) - How can you motivate others? In three words: Strengths based management. What are your strengths? This post should help you. Here's how it works. People naturally tend to want their autonomy, to want self-direction in their tasks, and to want to use their areas of greatest strength at work. This is based on surveys of
- [How can you discover your strengths?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/07/30/discover-strengths/) - Let's start with vocabulary. What is a strength? A strength is something that you can visualize yourself doing repeatedly, happily, and successfully. Talents are naturally recurring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, which make up your strengths. Skills are the steps of an activity, Knowledge is facts and lessons learned. You need a system to
- [Are you tired of your tiny wage? (How to make money on the side)](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/07/28/are-you-tired-of-your-wage-how-to-make-money-on-the-side/) - Are you living on credit? Are you making MUCH less than you deserve? Do you wonder what you're going to do about retirement? About your health if you get sick? What if in this downturn, your nonprofit decides they can't afford you anymore? What's your plan B or plan C? You don't HAVE ONE? Why
- [How you can become a Chief Development Officer](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/07/24/learned-chief-development-officer/) - So how she got her executive position was at first through just volunteering, and she said, "You would not believe how many people become executives through volunteering first" and it's definitely true in my experience as well. "Money makes the world go around. If you can raise the money, you can do the good works." -Lisa Avra
- [Do you want to learn how to ask for help?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/07/22/learn-to-ask-for-help/) - I've got some good news for you! You can read these articles I've written. I've written a guest post last week for Sharp Skirts about how to ask for help, and how to find your magicians who help you here. I've written a guest post on how to manage volunteers for Vivanista.com! And thanks for
- [Have you ever been fired? Was that awesome, or what?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/07/18/fired-awesome/) - Here's some advice from Dr. Bernadine Healy, former President of the American Red Cross, who raised over $3 BILLION dollars for them before being fired. She did all of this, mind you, with a brain tumor. "Life isn't a straight upward trajectory, but I think you will win more than you lose if you stand for something."
- [Do you have what it takes to be Chief Development Officer?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/07/16/takes-chief-development-officer/) - Why not come and find out? This July 27th, at 5:30pm at 2500 Exposition, Howson library in Austin, Texas, we'll be listening to Lisa Avra, Chief Development Officer, Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Avra graduated from Baylor University with a BA in Mass Communication and English. She then went on
- [Want to sell your hybrid nonprofit to a larger corporation? Start collaborating](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/07/14/sell-hybrid-nonprofit-larger-corporation-start-collaborating/) - Oh holy moly. World of Good got acquired by eBay and Greater Good! Now you can find World of Good at eBay. What is World of Good? World of Good was founded in 2004 by Priya Haji, MBA with the mission to help small artisan producers improve their livelihoods by providing them with access to mainstream retail markets.
- [Best Wild Woman Fundraising Posts, as Chosen by YOU!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/07/10/wild-woman-fundraising-posts-chosen/) - Want the best of the fundraising posts of the last 3 months? Read on!
- [Why You Should Care About Inequality](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/07/08/care-inequality/)
- [Thank you for all of the joy](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/07/04/joy/) - Wow. I'm so happy! This week RJ Leaman of the Wild Apricot Blog posted my presentation about rankism in the workplace. Last week iGrad posted my article on how to get a nonprofit job for new graduates. And I also guest posted about how to overcome workaholism over on the Fundraising Ideas blog! And I
- [A little grab-bag of free things for you](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/07/02/favor-grabbag-free/) - So FYI, if you haven't given to our kickstarter project yet, here are 3 good reasons why. Because: 1. You could help thousands, perhaps millions of people that you've never met! 2. Building the capacity of thousands of people to fundraise is not an opportunity that just comes along every day! 3. You can be the first in your city to have a game that teaches people in your organization how to fundraise. Imagine the edge you'll have when all of your volunteers know how to research grants for you, do a mailing, or run an event!
- [Why does the hybrid nonprofit model work?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/06/30/hybrid-nonprofit-model-work/) - Do you want to help solve the problem of homelessness? Do you want to help provide affordable housing? Do you want to help people get jobs? Are you thinking of starting a hybrid nonprofit?
- [Different reasons people give you donations: Radio Interview!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/06/26/reasons-people-give-donations-radio-interview/) - Last week I was interviewed by Megan Schiebe of Global Humanitarian Discussions Radio Show and Founder of Travel Volunteer Search. Here is the streaming interview after the jump.
- [Your Fundraising Plan Checklist](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/06/24/fundraising-plan-checklist/) - Here is a Fundraising Plan Checklist that you can use every time you start a new appeal, campaign, event, or grant proposal. How much do we want to raise? Are you going to try to raise $3,000 with your annual report? Are you going to try to raise $20,000 with an event? What is a
- [Can We Trade Charity Futures?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/06/20/trade-charity-futures/) - Common Misconception: No one should seek to earn a profit in charity. Profitmaking is for the for-profit sector. -Dan Pallotta
- [6 Tips for Making Your Fundraising Program Better](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/06/18/6-tips-making-fundraising-program/) - 3. Master the art of continuous improvement even in the face of set-backs, which are inevitable.
- [Teaching other people how to fundraise](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/06/16/teaching-people-fundraise/) - Are you the lone development person, or even part of a small team? What is one of your biggest problems? If you answered "Capacity" I think you'd be right. How can you build your capacity to raise more money? Well, you can't put more hours in the day, and you can't hire more people. Budgets
- [Top ten mistakes people make in fundraising](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/06/12/top-ten-mistakes-people-fundraising/) - So are you: 0. Thinking that your nonprofit is looking out for you, and will reward all of your hard work with more money or respect or job titles? Think again. 1. Thinking fundraising is begging? It's not. It's relationship building. 2. Thinking that you should not get paid a living wage, nor should your
- [Your Massive Fundraising Resource List](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/06/10/massive-fundraising-resource-list/) - Here's my resource list! I would like to keep it growing! Can you comment at the bottom with your favorite twitter friends, blogs, books, or other resources? Twitter If you're looking for people to follow, may I suggest: @wildwomanfund/funders (This is a list: I followed all of the top 100 foundations on Foundation Center, now
- [18 Ways You Can Demand Dignity at Work](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/06/06/18-ways-demand-dignity-work/) - “To have a name is to be,” said Benoit Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractals. As “sexism” gained a foothold, men’s desire to avoid being labeled “sexist” caused them to modify their treatment of women. Likewise, the desire of perpetrators to avoid being labeled rankist will make them think twice about insulting the dignity of subordinates.
- [20 Money Saving Tips for Fundraisers](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/06/04/money-saving-tips-development-office/) - 3. Batch your fundraising appeal letters. Send out 150 at a time. Test out different messages, graphs, charts, quotes, pictures, see what works with who. This way you can avoid an appeal letter that bombs.
- [Why are fundraisers hated?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/06/02/fundraisers-hated/) - Why are fundraisers so hated? Because we have to talk to others and convince them to give to the cause? Because we seem fake if we're trying to market the cause? Because we can seem out of touch with program realities?
- [Are YOU Fundraising in a Big Shop?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/05/29/fundraising-big-shop/) - Because you've got so much support, you're expected to perform miracles, even with a bad database, or a down economy. Or perhaps you feel pigeonholed into your role, with no chance to move up, or do new things. How do you deal?
- [Are You Fundraising in a Small Shop?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/05/27/fundraising-small-shop/) - If you are fundraising in a small shop, I salute you. It is hard. You come to work and often receive no kudos or respect for what you do. I want you to know that I know what you're going through. And I appreciate that you take a small part of your limited time to read this.
- [Volunteering. What's in it for you?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/05/23/volunteering/) - Do you get to do things you like to do, when you volunteer? Or do you feel taken advantage of?
- [Why your nonprofit is so damn reactionary](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/05/21/nonprofit-damn-reactionary/) - When you discourage long-term vision, you institutionalize suffering. When funders and donors have a need for immediate gratification, your nonprofit always loses.
- [8 ways NOT to write a fundraising plan](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/05/19/write-fundraising-plan/) - Here's how NOT to write a fundraising plan. 1. First, make sure you make it in total isolation. You don't want any input from any other staff or board messing it up. 2. Make it focused solely around one or two income streams, like one big event and a government grant. Because what could go
- [How can you be the best fundraiser in the world?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/05/15/best-fundraiser-in-the-world/) - It's impossible of course. You'll never know if you are or not, or who is. You'll never know how much someone else had help in getting that major gift, or running that big event, you'll never know if that big gift they got was the result of a nod from a board member that had
- [Aw Girl, are you JADED?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/05/13/aw-girl-jaded/) - Do you advocate for people to give to causes, but never give to causes yourself? Why is that?
- [Are you a workaholic fundraiser? Take the quiz!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/05/09/workaholic-fundraiser-quiz/) - Click a checkbox if this applies to you! Do you do 2 or more people's jobs? (Development/Marketing/Outreach/Volunteer Coordination/Website Designer/Website Manager/Graphic Designer/Speechwriter/In-Kind Donations/Event Coordinator/Public Relations/Grantwriting/Major Gifts/Planned Giving)? Do you get more excited about your work than about family or anything else? Do you eat precooked dinners from the freezer a lot? Do you rarely get outside,
- [How to Say NO to donations](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/05/07/donations/) - Why would you say NO to donations? Wild Woman, are you CRAZY? The answer is yes. I am crazy. I would have to be crazy to turn down money in this economy. But that is precisely what I am asking you to do. Why?
- [Who do you need on your board and how can you get them there?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/05/05/board/) - If your nonprofit is new, making a tiny amount of money with events, or has a disengaged board, it might be time to get new board members. Where do you find them? You want people high up in a corporation, so that they can approve thousands to sponsor your event, or a year-end gift to
- [9 tips to create a winning cover letter!](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/05/01/9-tips-create-winning-cover-letter/) - Do you want a fundraising job? What will it take to get the hiring manager knocking on YOUR door and calling YOU back? Here are 9 tips. 1. Be clear. 2. Be concise. 3. Bullet Points. 4. Convey your passion. 5. Convey your experience as it relates to their job tasks. 6. Show that you've
- [Bullying bosses can cause employee suicide](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/04/29/bullying-bosses-employee-suicide/) - Did you ever have a boss who didn't say hello or goodbye to you, screamed, socially ostracized you in other ways, used scare tactics, or told you that you'd done something wrong when you hadn't? This video of Marlene’s Law tells the story of a woman whose boss terrorized her so much that she ultimately committed suicide.
- [Do you work at an arts organization?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/04/25/work-arts-organization-read/) - The Wing Asian Museum, Seattle
- [What your funders want to see: Subjective vs. Objective Measurements](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/04/23/funders-subjective-objective-measurements/) - Camilla Nevill at the New Philanthropy Capital Blog has just made a fascinating post about the concept of happiness in funding. What she asks is, should we be measuring things like well-being as well as test scores when deciding if a nonprofit is fulfilling its mission? The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
- [So you want to lead a nonprofit? Part 1](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/04/21/lead-nonprofit/) - So you want to lead a nonprofit. Maybe you've got a cause you really care about, and you're ready to see a new nonprofit created. Maybe you've run programs, and you feel confident that you can lead a nonprofit now. Or maybe you've been in the corporate sector, and are ready to try the nonprofit
- [How Nimble are Your Development Skills?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/04/17/nimble-development-skills/) - "Are you defined by passion and effort or effort and risk?" -Manuel Zarate
- [Could your nonprofit get government contracts?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/04/15/nonprofit-government-contracts/) - If you've combed the Foundation Center Database over and over, it might be time to start thinking big with your nonprofit. What do you do that the government would like done? Whether it's providing social services or cleaning up the environment, you could get a steady stream of income from your local or federal government.
- [You're the Entrepreneur in your Development office-Part One](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/04/11/entrepreneur-development-office/) - Be Able to Motivate This is the number one thing. If you can do this, you can overcome bandwidth issues, and other organizational issues. It means more than just being nice. It means be able to give some people a reason to try harder for you.
- [Ten tips for getting more donations through social media](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/04/09/facebook-fans/) - Whether your nonprofit is on facebook, twitter, or myspace, you may be asking yourself, How can I get more facebook group members? How can I get more twitter followers? How can I get more myspace members? And then, how can I make these people want to donate to my cause? How can I, in short,
- [Ask your volunteers](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/04/01/volunteers/) - What is your call to action like? Is it as good as Amplify Your Voice? If not, consider how to engage a volunteer, no matter what time of the day or night it is, with the skills that they possess right now. Do they like to blog? Make it easy for them to create a blog post about your organization. Do they want to get involved in your next phone-a-thon, special event, walk-a-thon? Then post the date and signup sheet there too. Make it exciting with pictures. Make it easy. They'll come back again and again to keep working with you.
- [Are you a Fierce Fundraising Superheroine?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/04/03/fierce-fundraising-superheroine/) - Super Fundraising
- [Freelancing your Fundraising Career](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/04/07/freelancing-fundraising-career/) - Why not do it? Because you really like your boss Because having a steady meager paycheck appeals to you.
- [The Fundraising Fog of War](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/03/31/fog-war/) - What are you assuming about your donors? About your members and constituents? What are you assuming about the culture of people you are helping, versus the people you ask for support?
- [Cabinet of Curiosities-Crowdsource solutions](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/03/27/cabinet-curiositiescrowdsource-solutions/) - So could we use the internet like a giant filing cabinet, but actually filled with useful best practices information, entered by our 1.9 million nonprofits?
- [Where are your donors spending money?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/03/25/donor-spending-money/) - How much do people spend in your region and on what? Can you compare and contrast regions? Yes. This is not only a way to see what people's disposable income is, but a way to sense how money could be redirected to your nonprofit. If people spend $1,000 going out every month, could they spend
- [Where is your money?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/03/21/money/) - The real cost of war, by Good Magazine, is estimated at 3 Trillion dollars. What nonprofits in America are working on this issue? Should we have a department of peace, as well as a department of war? What issue could advocates focus on that would significantly decrease war spending, and increase government money for nonprofits,
- [This is what gives fundraising a bad name.](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/03/19/fundraising-bad/) - "The fundraising letter comes in the form of a "survey," a frequently used device for partisan fundraising, but this one has a twist: calling itself the "Congressional District Census," the letter comes in an envelope starkly printed with the words, "DO NOT DESTROY OFFICIAL DOCUMENT"
- [Elementary my dear: How to interview and find out if your boss is a bully](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/03/17/elementary-dear-interview-find-boss-bully/) - When you go in for that nonprofit job interview, pretend you’re Sherlock Holmes. Nothing escapes you. Look around. Is this environment going to support you and your goals? What kind of question is that? Isn’t everyone scrambling to find a job? Even if you are scrambling, and you feel that you HAVE TO take the job, these questions are here to help you decide if this job is going to be a difficult one.
- [Why your dog is a great fundraiser](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/03/13/dog-great-fundraiser/) - What your dog knows about fundraising, and why it works
- [Fundraising in a downturn: The Power of Leaderless Organizations](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/03/11/fundraising-downturn-power-leaderless-organizations/) - In this economic downturn, how are you responding? How quickly are your funders responding? How about your donors? I just sat down and read the first chapter of "The Starfish and the Spider." Talk about an inspiring book! You can read it here, too. This book, written in 2007, is relevant today in thinking about four things. 1. File sharing 2. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan 3. Montezuma, Cortez, the Apaches 4. Grassroots movements
- [What's your donor personality?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/03/07/whats-your-donor-personality/) - What's Your Donor Personality?
- [How can you make your impact last?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/03/05/you-want-to-do-good-how-to-make-your-impact-last/) - We know what nonprofits are. We know that nonprofits depend on a good vision and service model and fundraising to continue their work. But what is a social enterpreneur? What is social entrepreneurship? It's the radical idea that you can found your business on doing good and making a profit, straight from the start. If
- [Why should we fundraise for women?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/03/03/why-you-need-to-cater-your-fundraising-specifically-to-women/) - Audio Interview "Forget China, India and the internet: economic growth is driven by women." -The Economist
- [How to negotiate your salary](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/02/27/how-to-negotiate-your-salary/) - Video Post Do you want a bigger salary? This is a how-to video for women to negotiate salaries from Ramit Sethi of http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/. It shows key negotiation tactics for how you can get a better salary in your next job. Often we, as women, do not negotiate for the salary we really want. Here's how you can move beyond that.
- [What is a hybrid nonprofit?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/02/25/what-is-a-hybrid-nonprofit/) - "Trust your dreams, find your power, build what you want to build in the world." "There is no static truth." -Priya Haji
- [How can you help someone care about your cause?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/02/21/how-can-you-help-someone-care-about-your-cause/) - Marketing your nonprofit is confusing in a changing world! Where is it worth it to advertise your cause? Do you go for newspaper ads? Flyers? Bumper Stickers? Facebook groups? Billboards? TV ads? Radio? Viral video? All of the above? What if you have no budget? Which ones are the most important? Where is your audience?
- [How do you get an event sponsorship?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/02/19/how-do-you-get-an-event-sponsorship/) - How To Get Sponsorship For Your EventView more documents from Mazarine Treyz.
- [What's your Fundraising Personality?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/02/17/whats-your-fundraising-personality/) - What is your Fundraising Personality?View more presentations from Mazarine Treyz.
- [Are you looking for a fundraising job?](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/02/13/are-you-looking-for-a-fundraising-job/) - Jumpstart Your Fundraising JobsearchView more presentations from Mazarine Treyz.
- ["Why do you go to work?"](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/02/11/are-businesses-fulfilling-part-of-nonprofit-missions/) - It’s as if there were a wall. And on one side of the wall is this belief that not-for-profits and government exist for public service, and that they’re fundamentally altruistic, that they have a deeper purpose, and they’re doing good in the world, and they have pure motives. On the other side of the wall are corporations. And they’re just selfish and greedy. They have no purpose other than to make money.
- [Lean Fundraising](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/02/07/lean-fundraising/) - What is it? Lean Development is the practice of applying corporate waste-elimination strategies to the nonprofit development processes. When to do it: Every day, take 15 minutes and ask, “What went well today? What could have gone better?” Every week, examine your processes. Could something go faster? Could another thing eliminate waste? You'll need: A
- [10 tips for running an efficient nonprofit](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/02/05/10-tips-for-running-an-efficient-nonprofit/) - We'd all like to do more with less, especially now. How can you make your nonprofit more efficient? Ask yourself and those around you these questions. 1. What does your nonprofit spend the most money on? 2. What does your nonprofit waste the most money on? 3. How many people have been hired and fired
- [Advanced Fundraising: Your Career](https://www.wildwomanfundraising.com/2025/02/03/advanced-fundraising-career/) - Where do you want your fundraising career to go? Do you want to become a Development Manager? Development Director? Executive Director? Director of Annual Giving? Director of Major Gifts? Dean? Board chair? A Social Entrepreneur? A Founder of a Hybrid nonprofit? How do you get ahead in fundraising? Sign up for my newsletter, and get
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