At the end of each month, in addition to links to the articles I have written on the other FastTrack Fundraising blogs, I will also provide a few links to interesting articles I’ve read during the month on the general topic of fundraising. Here are just five outstanding posts that I think you will enjoy! […]

At the end of each month, I will be posting a complete list of article links to blog posts that I have written that month on the three different sites I manage for FastTrack Fundraising: Step by Step Fundraising, Top School Fundraisers, and of course, FundraisingIdeas.org. Checking out these links is a great way to […]

In the last installment of this series, I wrote about the first couple of ways that a team-building retreat can benefit your non-profit staff. Specifically, I gave these two reasons: Most people are not good communicators to begin with, so they need lots of instruction and practice A team-building retreat is a shared experience outside […]

Just recently, I wrote a different kind of article than what normally appears here on Step By Step Fundraising. It was an actual personal experience I had while leading a group of non-profit professionals through a day of team-building activities. The discoveries we made that day about the group were surprising and dramatic to me. […]

I had just given the group of 12 adults their instructions to put on their blindfolds, cinch them up tight, and take hold of a 50 foot length of rope. I could tell that some of them were pretty nervous. I told them their mission was to form as close to a perfect square as […]

In parts I & II of this article, I have listed six different goals that should be set at a community-wide non-profit summit meeting.  These goals so far are: Make a thorough introduction of each group and person that goes beyond the casual niceties of most meetings. Launch a brainstorming session that lists the problems […]

In the first part of this article, I recommended that you/your non-profit organization plan to host a summit meeting with as many of the non-profit groups in your community as you can gather in one place at one time. Once at this summit, I started listing goals that you should strive to accomplish. The first […]