By: Beth Ann Locke and Jen Love Note: this post appeared originally on AFP eWire Canada about starting workplace conversations about equity and diversity. Thank you, AFP for giving us a voice. We are both passionate supporters of our sector and share your commitment to the advancement of fundraisers and the remarkable and important causes…
Note: This post was written for our friends at SOFII.org, who asked us to add our voices to their It’s Just Not Fair post. We’d love to hear what you think! By: Beth Ann Locke and Jen Love What a great discussion to champion! Thank you, SOFII! These most certainly are conversations we have amongst ourselves…
It fills my heart to read and hear people talking about #donorlove this Valentine’s Day. Hugs and high fives to you beautiful people who are planning spontaneous phone calls and organizing thank-a-thons. As my man Simon Scriver says, using the phone for #donorlove is effective, cheap and makes everyone feel good. I’m here with 2…
Have you heard the story of the boy and the starfish? One morning, an old man takes his daily walk by the ocean to discover that the tide has washed thousands of starfish up on the beach. Ahead, he sees a child, who picks something up and throws it in the water. Again. And again.…
Earlier this week, I sat down with the lovely and talented Tenille Bonoguore to talk about kids and giving. Tenille is the CBC-KW parenting columnist and was working on a story for the December 2, 2016 Sounds of the Season broadcast. And just before that, I was delighted to join my son’s grade 6 class for…
…When I’m quoted saying “it’s a thing!” It was a beautiful privilege to be interviewed recently by the New York Times for a special section on Giving. Endless gratitude to my friend and fellow #donorlove champion Tom Ahern for making the introduction… Tom gave me great advice about preparing for the interview, which was, in a nutshell: think about…
It was the best story of the day. And there were many. My 94-year-old grandfather was a notorious storyteller. So the weekend of his funeral has been filled with memories, stories, laughs and tears. Just as a full life should be honoured… But the story that turned out to be my favourite was quite unexpected.…
Google says the definition of earnest is resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction. Not a bad definition for Ask Direct’s Fundraising Summer School last week, held in Oscar Wilde’s beautiful Dublin. My personal highlight reel of #ADFSS16 can be nutshelled with “earnest”. First, our curator. The one and only Damian. Summer School was…
I’ve been meaning to do this since our #DonorLove Rendezvous in May. And now that it’s road trip season, I’m calling on all you fabulous fundraisers to help build the ultimate #donorloveplaylist! Here’s a start. Please, comment and/or tweet to add your faves. Let’s make beautiful #donorlove inspired music together! Note: just like good direct…
She never calls me. We’ve worked together for almost 10 years and she’s never called me. She’s the kind of Executive Director who emails me to ask if we can talk for half an hour a week from Thursday at 2:30 sharp. So when Ruth called me the day after our appeal dropped, I immediately…