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The real story you should be telling in fundraising is not the story about how organization. It's the story about the donor.
Here's a presentation that gives you practical tips on how to do that, and motivate more donors to give:
Or view it at Slideshare.
(Originally presented by me and Jann Schultz of Project HOPE at the 2016 Bridge Conference.)
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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. More.
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