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Good board leadership can help your alumni program achieve more than you think is possible. But for most organizations, board development is one of the toughest areas to navigate. In our upcoming posts, we’ll guide you step by step through this important topic and give you some tools to use as you develop your alumni [...]
Marketing and Client Relationship Specialist Description Bentz Whaley Flessner, a leading international fundraising consulting firm for over 25 years, provides quality advice for every step of the development process to educational institutions, academic medical centers, healthcare systems, and arts, culture, and environmental organizations with specialty counsel on analytics, annual giving, prospect research, and information systems. [...]
Bentz Whaley Flessner, a leading fundraising consulting firm for nearly 30 years, provides quality advice for every step of the development process to educational institutions, academic medical centers, healthcare systems, and arts and cultural organizations—nationwide—with specialty counsel on advancement services, annual giving, prospect research, and analytics. This position provides of full range of administrative support [...]
Your campaign will flag, maybe fail, if: your constituents don’t have enough money. your constituents don’t love you enough. your constituents don’t believe you’re headed the right direction. you don’t have enough staff to discover, and then work, your prospects. your leaders (both your president and the cabinet, and the Board and other volunteer leaders) [...]
Over the last 25 years I’ve seen dozens of “feasibility studies,” those misnamed instruments we’re convinced are needed before a campaign begins. My life would have been easier if I had known early on what they were supposed to do. Maybe it was because I was trained as an academic. Documents were to be digested [...]
Josh Birkholz, pictured here on the left with the faculty of BTFRI, spoke twice at the Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, gathering. The 49th session of the Big Ten Fundraising Institute included sessions from academic leaders, philanthropists, and senior advancement officers at major public research universities. Sunday July 31 Analytics: Measuring Fundraising Success Monday, August 1: Using [...]
There is tremendous attention paid to prospect management in relation to major gifts work. An equal amount of attention should be applied when thinking about prospect management within your annual giving or direct marketing programs. Whether engaging alumni, parents, patients and their families, or members, for most non-profits the annual giving program serves as the [...]
According to this recent article from the Chronicle of Philanthropy, nonprofits still don’t appear to be raising much money using social media. This might signal that social media is a fad experiencing a dot-com-bubble-like collapse, but that…
As Josh and Alex mentioned in previous client advisories, the sophistication of analytics in the non-profit world has seen rapid growth. In response to this growth, companies have met the increased demand with new metrics and software products to help us better understand and target our constituencies. In continuation of Analytics Month here at BWF, [...]
AFP/ Wiley Radio The Nonprofit Coach w/ Ted Hart (Joshua M. Birkholz – Fundraising Analytics Expert) Noon EST Today, March 15, 2011Click to join
