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The cornerstone of my life’s work has been to understand what helps people communicate and collaborate more effectively across human differences. When I first started…
Continue reading → Putting Theory into Practice for Donor-Client Engagements
I‘ve been consulting on donor trips for a while now, and have come across a fair share of assumptions and ill-informed beliefs. In this article,…
As fundraising and marketing staff, you understand the why of donor trips, but a challenge you may still face is convincing your colleagues in the…
Continue reading → How to Convince Your Program Staff That Donor Trips Are Essential
Most people think alumni travel is only one thing: big group trips, the kind we see in glossy catalog photos. But my experience working with…
I’ve written quite a bit about how to prepare donors for their client experiences and what should be included in their guidebooks, but there’s one…
Continue reading → We See What We Already Believe: Guiding Donor Assumptions in Client Interactions