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Webinar Recording: Engaging Your Board in the Fundraising Effort
This webinar was originally broadcast on November 19, 2013. In it, we cover an approach to board fundraising training that identifies three basic steps organization's can take. Here is the webinars full description: Key to diversifying your organization’s base of...
Find the Guardian Angel on Your Board
When searching for a high school for my daughter, my wife and I found a small charter school that we thought she would thrive in. Bella has some particular needs and we felt that the intimate, one-on-one environment would be a great fit. We quickly discovered that she...
Carlo’s Not-So-Secret Formula for Nonprofit Messaging
For the last 12 years, I have been helping organization's construct messages using a simple formula. It goes like this: your message = your promise + the incentive - the barrier Here's how it breaks down… Your Promise -- Simply, this is the essence of...
What Coughing Up a Lung Taught Me About Authentic Engagement
A few weeks back I ran a Ragnar. If you don't know, a Ragnar is a 200-mile race that (in Minnesota) goes from Winona to the Twin Cities. There's 12-people on a team and we travel in two vans, each taking a turn running three legs over 35-hours. This year, my first leg...
Webinar Recording: Helping Your Board Tell Your Story
This recording of our recent webinar, Helping Your Board Tell Your Story, focuses on techniques to help nonprofit boards discover their own unique voice to express the work their organization is doing. In addition, the webinar covers... The most effective structure...
Nonprofit Branding: The Power of Your Principles
An environmental group that believes land conservation policy should be rooted in the best science available builds a base of supporters that deeply trusts the organization's point of view. A social service organization that believes volunteers can play a key...
Board Engagement: The Most Unorthodox Development Committee Meeting Ever
"This will be the most unorthodox development committee meeting you have ever attended" promised Tom, the committee chair. Admittedly, I was skeptical, yet the energy in the room was palpable as more and more committee members stuffed themselves into the tiny,...
Nonprofit Strategic Planning: The Public Milestone Strategy
On May 23, we held a Free webinar on nonprofit strategic planning entitled The Public Milestone Strategy. Please click on the image or go here to view a recording and download the slides from this event. Please note, we ask folks to sign in. We will not send you...
Board Storytelling: An Activity to Help Your Board Find Their Voice
This video is a two-minute excerpt from our February 5th webinar on Helping Your Board Tell Your Story. In this section of the webinar, Carlo discusses the importance of safe environments for board storytelling. Here, he takes participants through a brief and easy...
Nonprofit Branding 2013: What has Changed?
Recently, the Nonprofit Quarterly and the Alliance for Nonprofit Management hosted an online discussion with me (Carlo), Kate Barr of Nonprofits Assistance Fund, Jeanne Bell of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, Robin Katcher of Management Assistance Group, and our...
Beyond Fundraising: The Real Power of Storytelling
Today, I am leading a webinar entitled Helping Your Board Tell Your Story. For the last ten years, I have done many different iterations of this workshop for board members and staff, mainly because charities want to use stories to help them in their fundraising...
Nonprofit Leadership: Where does your power come from?
About 14 years ago, I was invited to participate in a nonprofit leadership retreat on the grounds of an animal preserve. In fact, they told us not to go out walking after dark because you could end up face to face with an animal you might not want to be face to face...