Why We Tell Stories: To Recognize Funders
As nonprofit marketers, one of our primary storytelling goals is to recognize funders. And, as a fundraiser, part of the job is to make your donors feel great about their support ...
Nonprofit Storytelling, an Introduction
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to teach a Fundraising Fundamentals course on Storytelling. The perspective I bring to the topic is that of an executive leader in marketing ...
Ugly bathrooms are the worst
After we bought our home in 2004, one of the first things I wanted to do was renovate the two bathrooms. In 2019, I actually did it. The old bathrooms were ...
The promise of a pantry
“It's the hap-happiest season of all, With those holiday greetings, And gay happy meetings when friends come to call” – Andy Williams Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It’s all about the ...
My kid, the Starting Pitcher
We are a crazy, sports-obsessed family. Today, our team had a HUGE game. We thought about it for weeks and hoped it would go our way. And, today's big game had ...
Our Dining Room gets a Makeover
As previously noted, I am obsessed with built-ins. The good news on that front is my obsession lends itself to adding charm, character and storage to our home. Combining this with a ...
Making work a bit more like the US Open
Most tennis fans are in recovery from the five hour slug fest that was yesterday's Men's Championship at the US Open. We either let our kids stay up too late watching...or ...
The bicycle was just the beginning
We picked up the brand new bicycle from my boss, Lewis’s, home on a lovely Saturday in December 1994. He was smiling as he loaded it into the back of my car—who ...
What do your employees have to say?
In 1997, the business imperative in the Ernst & Young Healthcare Consulting Practice was to reduce turnover at the staff and senior consultant levels, which at the time exceeded 20%. Staff and ...