by Eddie Thompson | Jul 29, 2019 | Development Management, Donor Communications
My previous post, “Weathering the Storms,” covered practice-management strategies to employ during good times that tend to harden nonprofits against three types of hard times: 1) economic recessions that universally impact all donors and their giving capacities; 2)...
by Eddie Thompson | Mar 20, 2019 | Development Management
In 2007, six years after publishing Good to Great, Jim Collins wrote a 35-page booklet applying the principles to the nonprofit world—Good to Great for the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer. That follow-up seemed to be inevitable since his own...
by Eddie Thompson | Jul 30, 2018 | Development Management
Russell N. James III is Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in Charitable Financial Planning at Texas Tech University. He’s a great friend, and I’m one of his biggest fans. Dr. James is a diligent researcher with a nose for sniffing out the most relevant data...
by Eddie Thompson | Jun 27, 2018 | Development Management
Last month I wrote about the cost of turnover in organizational leadership, particularly at the senior executive level. The stories of nonprofit boards making poor decisions in the choice of the next CEO can be quite discouraging. In such cases, organizations often...
by Eddie Thompson | May 7, 2018 | Development Management
“You have chosen…poorly,” said the knight guarding the Holy Grail. The famous line from the movie “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark,” was spoken as an intruder tried to select the of cup of Christ from over a dozen options....