Nonprofit Training Resources And Blog Posts
 

This week we had a wonderful conversation with a fundraiser who reached out to us with an all-too-common fundraising dilemma: “I need to...

Long ago in a faraway place (ok, Florida), I had a team of coachable young salespeople. I was their somewhat new, also a young manager....

As mentioned, I spent four years working at the Gift of Life Marrow Registry. To say the experience changed me would be an...

I haven’t been shy about using this space to draw parallels between fundraising and my own life. My kids have factored into more blogs...

If your tombstone says any of the below on it, you have made a GRAVE mistake. Never used all her vacation days. FILO (first in, last out) Ate lunch at his desk every single day I am afraid much of the above described me. Then came COVID, and my battery went from red to dead, and I had to look myself in the mirror and make some changes. Dedication to your job is critical, but if you never stop and take a break, just like your phone or laptop, you will lose your charge. Or, as

Lately, it seems like every time I open social media or go to look at the news, and I see something about a breakthrough in AI. These...

As many know, Team Kat & Mouse prides itself on Training, Tactics, and Tools. We often share fundraising information in our blogs and...

I’ve had the joy of spending most of my professional life working with nonprofits - as a staff member, and now, as a consultant with...

Interested in learning more about Team Kat & Mouse and how we can increase your Organizations Fundraising skills? Take a listen to an...

I was always told the three most important words in real estate are Location, Location, Location. In the world of Corporate Fundraising,...

When we onboard new clients, I always like to give a few warnings up front. We ask a lot of questions and are eager to learn everything possible about your organization and its mission. And one more, slightly less practical warning: We might drive you nuts with a few guiding words of wisdom we like to repeat over…and over…and over again. The most important of those phrases? “What gets measured gets improved” It gets to the core of why fundraisers struggle - we work to hit bi

Later this week, our baby boy (now 6' 2 ) will graduate from the University of Florida Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering with his...

About this time three years ago: We all became experts on virology. We all learned what PPE was and discovered that we simply did not...

The grass is green, the birds are chirping, and spring is finally here in St. Louis. That means one crucial thing for me: here in the...

In the most recent (2022) edition, Litmus found people spent just nine seconds , on average, looking at an email. The researchers found...

This week, the world of grantmaking - and fundraising in general - was rocked by the announcement that Mackenzie Scott will be opening up...

Two Sundays ago, we gathered around our televisions to watch the Oscars. You know, the night once a year when the Movie industry gathers...

Long ago, I wrote an article for Radio Ink Magazine called “Confessions of a New Business Junkie.” I was asked to write it because my...

When the work from home era started, a joke developed in my house. My wife took note of how the meetings I ran were very structured and...

Finding the Blueberries—What?? Yes, we do work with an amazing Food Bank--However, this is not about that. I put blueberries in my...