Personal Development
Building NonProfit Relationships Equals Success
The Forgotten Element = Relationships
On a phone call today I was asked what I believe was the most important factor in the success of a nonprofit that most forget. For me that is an easy question and one I believe is also the same for any business. In this day and age of email addresses, usernames, and twitter accounts many forget that relationships are golden. Whether you are in business for profit or not-for-profit, if you are not devoting a large percentage of your business toward building relationships, you are missing one of the most important aspects of marketing. If you build the relationships with your volunteers and donors and forget the rest, the finances, programs, and success will fall into place. Read on and let me show you how to build loyal relationships that can make all the difference in your business. I will start out with explaining the why and give you practical how to at the end.
The Missing Puzzle Piece
In this day and age more than ever people want to be known. It is a need that we are all born with, that we want people to know who we are. Think about it for a minute, when you walk into a room of strangers, doesn’t it feel great when someone knows you? Sure it does, it feels awesome. It does not matter whether you are in a room of strangers, in the cyber world, or walking into a restaurant for lunch. When someone knows you or wants to get to know you it makes you feel really good. Imagine what it must feel like when you are in one of those venues and
What Have You Done?
What Have You Done Lately That You Are Proud Of?
I was wondering to myself the other day… what have I done lately that I am proud of? Sure there are the usual ongoing things like being a good husband, a good father, my daily work, and of course taking out the trash. However, I am [...]
6 Steps to Making a Bigger Splash
You, yeah you!
Everyone is involved in non profit work, however, some are more focused on changing the world with their involvement than others. Read on and figure out how you can make a lasting impact in that which you focus your charitable giving and involvement.
We all give money to charities and we all volunteer doing [...]
The Wonder of a Star
Have you ever sat on a clear night and gazed up at the stars in wonder? Last night I woke up in the middle of the night and was having trouble getting back to sleep. After laying in bed for 20 minutes I decided to get up and take a walk around the house, jot a few things on “Things” a killer to-do list on the Mac. As I walked into the family room a twinkle caught my eye outside through the glass sliding door. We live on a saltwater inlet so just out side our back door is a beautiful view of the night sky over the water. Through the pines was one lone star twinkling as if to say “look at me and be amazed.” Stars amaze me because not one twinkles like the other. It also amazes me that the light we are seeing from a star has many times taken 10,000 years or more and the star might cease to exist. The reason being that the light from the star took so many years to get to us that the star burned out many years before.
For me gazing at the stars puts many things back into perspective because of the magnitude of the universe and the realization of what your actually gazing at. Standing on planet that is spinning about 1,038 miles per hour on the equator or if you live in the U.S. and Europe the speed is around 700 to 900 mph. The earth is also hurling through space at 67,000 miles an hour around the sun. When we look into the sky we are looking into the endless vastness of space and some 9800 stars are visible to the naked eye at any one time.
I am reminded of the hope that the rhyme, “Star light, start bright, the first star I see tonight, wish I may, wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight” gives us. There is a magical thing that happens in our minds when we believe there is hope that someone or something cares about giving us a break of unprecedented magnitude. For many that hope that someone cares is what gets them through the cold winter nights, the time to the next hot meal, the pain of a medical condition, or even the death of a loved one. Some non profits even encourage our hope by touching us with plays, the arts, music and stories of hope found.
Non Profit Job Listing
“If unrestricted by time, money, resources, or skills and you could do anything, help anyone, and make the world a better place, what would you do and how would you do it?”
Don’t settle for living someone else’s nonprofit dreams, its too easy to live your own.
