From the course: Nonprofit Fundraising: Using Relationships to Drive Growth
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Becoming a future focused fundraiser
From the course: Nonprofit Fundraising: Using Relationships to Drive Growth
Becoming a future focused fundraiser
- Do you know what your future holds? Don't feel bad. I don't either, but that doesn't prevent us from being future focused on our career as fundraisers. Remember, nonprofit is not a business model. It's a tax status. As such, it is important to embrace a combination of business or for-profit aligned approaches with the heart and soul of nonprofit fundraising. It is at this intersection of for-profit and nonprofit business strategies that future focused fundraisers are born. These fundraisers fully embrace the concept of a approaching their job like a business. And they're more important now than ever before. Future-focused fundraisers help donors escape information overload, and focus on what really matters. In order to be a successful future-focused fundraiser, you must embody these six traits. You are professional, sophisticated and see that the most effective and beneficial way to approach your job is like a business.…
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