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    Strategies for Success

    Trust-Based Donor Engagement and Acquisition

    May 6, 2025

    Discover strategies for trust-based donor engagement by starting with what matters most to your supporters. Learn how to align your message with donor motivations and build lasting, meaningful relationships.

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    Strategies for Success

    Strategic Fundraising: Reflect Before You Plan

    Like new-fallen snow, the New Year offers a clean slate of opportunity. [...]

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  • Power of Philanthropy

    Maximizing Donor Engagement

    When the wife of a successful surgeon came into a sizable inheritance, [...]

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  • boys sitting against a tree in a park

    Strategies for Success

    Leaving a Legacy

    For several years, there has been much discussion about the coming transition [...]

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    Power of Philanthropy

    A Force of Nature

    Banneker Elementary School, located at Gregory and Askew on Kansas City’s East [...]

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  • man writing on paper

    Strategies for Success

    Preparing One-of-a-kind Proposals

    Effective proposals should not look alike. Each proposal is designated for a [...]

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  • Tom Butch speaks during a private screening of Unbroken at The National World War I Museum

    Power of Philanthropy

    Energy that Spawns Philanthropy … and Vice Versa

    Energy is essential to philanthropy, and the truest philanthropy is an energy [...]

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  • Strategies for Success

    Time-tested Targets for Making a Case

    It’s not surprising that over the course of nearly three decades writing [...]

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  • picture of Ross, his wife, and his daughter smiling for a photo

    Power of Philanthropy

    Philanthropy for All the Ages

    In my work with nonprofits, I have the privilege of watching many [...]

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  • many people gathered around a table for a board meeting

    Strategies for Success

    Unleashing Your Board’s Power of Philanthropy

    Many discussions around board term limits center on circumventing negatives: boredom in [...]

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