3 Steps for Fundraising Sabotage When You’re Comfortable, You’re Not Growing Some healthcare fundraising teams shoot for the stars – and occasionally, they actually reach them. These high-performers (those with the top 25% of production returns) have a few...
Big Team, Big Money Think you don’t have the budget to hire more fundraising help? Think again. According to the FY 2012 Report on Giving by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, big teams raise big money. The report states that institutions with the...
Spend $1, Earn $3 Don’t be afraid to spend money on your fundraising initiatives. Investing in your development team’s efforts pays off, big time. In fact, the average U.S. hospital earns more than $3 for every $1 spent on fundraising, a trend that’s held even during...
Get Your Share of the $9 Billion Pie Yep, you read that correctly. Nine billion dollars. That’s how much U.S. healthcare institutions raised in FY 2012—and you, too, can get a big piece of that scrumptious, mouth-watering, research-supporting, clinic-funding,...
Why They Give (Part 2) Part 2 Want to understand the science of charitable giving? Start with Why They Give (Part 1), then keep reading to learn what giving behaviors economist John List has discovered after 15 years of charitable giving research. Get a stampede...
Why They Give (Part 1) Part 1 As development professionals, we think we know why people give. But even years of experience, logical deduction, and general impressions can’t tell us the cold, hard truth. In an industry run on “best practices,” we need to ask ourselves:...
Kelly Brooks
Kelly Brooks
