It’s time for a resource development checkup. Here is a short checklist to get you thinking. This is not meant to be comprehensive—it’s a blog post, not a book. But, I hope your thinking will be spurred by these questions.
How’s my...
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I predict that Alliance members will find the Resource Development Services (RDS) ever more important in 2012 and for the rest of this decade. Further reductions in governmental revenues are expected by most agencies, philanthropic giving to the...
When I travel, I enjoy looking for illustrations of good communications expressing mission and impact clearly and succinctly.
I hit the jackpot this summer in Santa Fe, N.M. A fine local restaurant the hotel suggested had just completed a...
The art of cultivation of current and prospective donors depends mostly on good etiquette and common sense.
Speaking my own experience on the receiving end of an ask, too often fundraisers or agency heads come at me with a full blast need...
Once again, we have an opportunity to help our donors who are at least 70-1/2 years old make a tax-free gift to our agencies by withdrawing from their individual retirement accounts (IRA).
Remember the...
Do poverty, homeless and illiterate children, hunger, appalling slums, and crippling disease overwhelm compassion when the scale is immense, the odds seemingly hopeless?
It would be easy to turn away from these...
It’s a familiar story. The board decides to look ahead a decade so the executive director of the agency arranges a board strategic planning retreat.
The facilitator begins the exercise in earnest, assuming that all board members understand...
Does your agency act as if it’s in the 21st century?
Weather, travel, and disability can hamper volunteer participation in governance and service. What does your agency do to mitigate the effects and enhance its utilization of volunteer...
Board members and executive officers alike tend to recoil at the thought of strategic planning. Sure, everyone votes to make a plan. No one relishes living the process.
Enter the challenge posed to me by the organizers of a fall conference...
My previous provided ideas for maximizing your organizations’ recovery. This post provides a checklist to examine the health of your agency’s fundraising.
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About the Author
Len Iaquinta is president of Excellence in Communications in Kenosha, Wis. He is a member of the Resource Development Services Advisory Committee and serves as a consultant for the Alliance’s Executive Consultant Select Group.
He is known for the breadth of his skill set and his depth of experience in nonprofit fundraising. Throughout his fund development career, he has raised millions of dollars in major gifts, grants, and annual fund donations. He has created successful fundraising programs at public and private institutions from New York City to Milwaukee and Chicago.
Iaquinta earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University (Medill School) and Columbia University in the City of New York (Pulitzer School), respectively.