Difficult and Joyful

Here’s the thing I wish more new Fundraisers heard right at the beginning of their fundraising journey…

Fundraising is hard and always will be.  It’s also joyful.

Fundraisers need the emotional strength to ask people for help.  You also have to figure out the right people to ask & the right time to ask them & the right way to ask them.

Additionally, you’re regularly exposed to the problem or situation your nonprofit was founded to address.

And yet… fundraising can bring incredible joy if you let it.  The fundraising work you do helps fund the incredible programs your organization operates.  Those programs cause the change that your organization exists to make.

And you know those donors you have?  The ones who have no programs and no way of helping on their own?  You make it possible for them to help in powerful ways, and they love to help.

And you get the satisfaction of doing the courageous, emotionally vulnerable hard work of asking for help. 

I get deep joy in doing all the hard things to succeed in fundraising in order to fund programs and connect with donors, and I hope you do too.

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Hey, my colleagues Jim Shapiro and Sarah Lundberg are hosting a free strategy session next Tuesday on year-end fundraising – and how a proven timeline and the right strategies can help you have your absolute best year-end ever.

Here's the thing: your donors are about to get bombarded with appeals from every nonprofit they've ever supported.  Most organizations will send the same generic “please give before December 31st” appeals at random times.  And I don't want you to get lost in that noise.

Jim and Sarah will show you how to cut through the clutter and make sure YOUR appeals get noticed, opened, and acted on.  Click the link below to register for the strategy session.

https://betterfundraising.com/best-year-end-webinar/

PS — We're keeping this session small so there's plenty of time for Q&A about your specific situation.  No bored-by-PowerPoint here – just real strategies you can use right away!

All the details are on this page: https://betterfundraising.com/best-year-end-webinar/

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