by Marc A. Pitman | Feb 25, 2016 | CEO/Executive Directors
Last week, I was speaking at a full day training for nonprofit leaders in Kansas City. In the course of the training, we got to thanking donors. Since the sector doesn’t thank donors well. We mean well, but the thank you notes tend to not get done. So making...
by Marc A. Pitman | Jan 5, 2016 | CEO/Executive Directors, Fundraising, Organizational Leadership
In our coaching work, we’ve received another wave of nonprofit leaders wanting the “next big gift.” It’s perfectly reasonable to expect results from the major gift officer or a development director you just hired. But one client had her...
by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 9, 2015 | Board Members, CEO/Executive Directors, Organizational Leadership, Uncategorized
Last week, executive coach John Fulwider gave a class for The Nonprofit Academy called Better Together. Based on his book with the same title, he was teaching how to build strong relationships between board chairs and nonprofit CEO’s. In the class, he said the...
by Marc A. Pitman | Nov 19, 2015 | Board Members, CEO/Executive Directors, Middle Managers, Organizational Leadership, Staff Relations, Volunteers
A post on our sister blog FundraisingCoach.com saying fundraising problems being leadership problems really hit a nerve. And it’s no wonder. We all know charities are facing increasing external pressures from the economy, government regulation, and the changing...