5 Tips to Collect Real Feedback
When portraying people who have benefitted from the work of our organizations, it’s important that they have a meaningful voice in their portrayal. Collecting their feedback is one of the only ways we can be sure to treat others the way they want to be treated. But we don’t know how they want to be […]
7 Follow-Up Faux Pas for Donor Trips
Following up with participants after a fundraising trip is one of the most important things your organization will do…and one of the easiest to mess up. Here are 7 Faux Pas organizations make in their follow-up approach after a trip. Follow-up is bad when it: 1. Is Not Prompt While you were away the work […]
Challenges Faced by Staff in Donor Travel Programs
The theme for today’s article is challenges. Why challenges and not solutions? Based on my experience, every organization’s solutions are unique, but the problems are all quite similar. Just defining the problem in a clear and simple way can help better point us to a solution. I’ve already addressed the two kinds of donor travel challenges most organizations […]
The Problem with Donor Travel Programs
Something I’ve learned doing this work is that most organizations face similar donor travel challenges and yet every organization needs tailored solutions. The challenge usually boils down to one of two things: 1) an organization has never done a donor trip and doesn’t know how to build an effective program from the ground up; or […]
5 Overseas Travel Tips from Fundraising Copywriter Dan Magill
What Happens When a Fundraising Copywriter Goes to Nepal… Plus: Dan’s Top 5 Suggestions for What You Should Do Before Every Overseas Trip So far in my career as a fundraising copywriter and strategist, the project I’m most happy to have worked on is a human trafficking safe home in Hetauda, Nepal. We spent about […]