EDs: Stop Inviting the Board into Your Lane!
D.M. Paule2025-06-09T17:48:12-04:00While the fundraisers are busy with the end-of-the-year campaign, we’d like to chat with the CEOs and Executive Directors who are busy planning for the [...]
It’s Women’s Small Business Month!
D.M. Paule2025-06-09T17:48:12-04:00Over the weekend, it came to my attention that October is National Women’s Small Business Month. This was initiated by the Small Business Administration to [...]
The Salary & Satisfaction Survey Results Are In!
D.M. Paule2025-06-09T17:48:12-04:00The Salary & Satisfaction Survey Results Are In! Thank you to everyone who participated in our first Salary & Satisfaction Survey. We had a strong [...]
Stretch Goals & Other Works of Fiction
D.M. Paule2025-06-09T17:49:47-04:00Years ago, when I started consulting with nonprofits, a brand new CEO sought me out. His role had been empty while the board conducted an [...]
Our Fundraising Survey: Nonprofit Salary & Satisfaction
D.M. Paule2025-06-09T17:50:09-04:00If you have spent much time on our blog – hey, you’re here now, right? – you know that we like to talk broadly about [...]
5 Summer Tasks That’ll Set Your Development Office Up for Fall Success!
Ailena Parramore2025-06-09T17:50:43-04:00It’s finally here…Summer! With the spring activity calendar slowing down and the number of external interruptions diminished with staff vacations (which they are hopefully taking!), [...]
New Year, New Who? Exciting Growth for OFS in 2023
Linda McNay2023-01-30T09:28:56-05:00When I was younger, every January the newsstands – remember those? – would be covered with magazines – remember those? – filled with ideas of [...]
2022 Fundraising Trends – How Does Your School Compare?
Linda McNay, D.M. Paule, Ailena Parramore2025-06-09T17:53:02-04:00Heads of School often have a plethora of comparative data at their fingertips to assist in analyzing their schools’ programs. From academics, admissions, athletics, etc. [...]
What The Unsinkable Molly Brown Can Teach You About Philanthropy
Linda McNay2022-09-08T00:36:38-04:00“I am sick at heart, but alive and safe” This quote was from Margaret, “Molly,” Brown after the infamous sinking of the Titanic. I ran [...]
You Always Remember Your First
Linda McNay2022-04-12T22:14:42-04:00Our development search business is thriving these days. In these post-Covid times nonprofits are frantically trying to replace and add qualified staff at an unprecedented [...]