Good post over at re: charity that riffs on an insightful quotes by Jeff Bezos:
I very frequently get the question: 'What's going to change in the next 10 years?' I almost never get the question: 'What's not going to change in the next 10 years?' And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two -- because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.
Change is a given. But so is stasis. The big successes in fundraising won't be those who chased shiny objects and spent to little on the fundamentals. It'll be those who realize that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
As the re:charity post notes:
If you want your organization to be a strong, sustainable, and successful ... don't worry so much about what will change and stop trying to predict the future. Instead, focus on what will remain constant -- knowing and caring for your supporters -- and invest your time, energy, and resources on that.
Jeff Brooks has been serving the nonprofit community for more than 30 years and blogging about it since 2005. He considers fundraising the most noble of pursuits and hopes you'll join him in that opinion. You can reach him at jeff [at] jeff-brooks [dot] com. 
