Making Your Mission Possible with Design Thinking
As a mission-driven nonprofit professional, it is probably safe to say you are already a…
Keshet Welcomes Lexi Silvers as Manager of Individual Giving
Lexi Silvers has joined Keshet’s Development Department as the new Manager of Individual Giving reporting…
Ask Giving Tree: Should We Be Talking About A Recession?
There are some questions everyone is thinking but no one is asking. At Giving Tree,…
Strategic Thinking about Strategic Planning II
In my second conversation with my colleague and strategic planning expert, Lisa Tylke, we talk…
Making the Most of Giving Tuesday 2019
Last year, my colleague Lisa Tarshis shared her valuable insights on the age old question:…
Strategic Thinking about Strategic Planning
As a consulting firm to nonprofits, we get asked a lot of questions. It’s part…
Keep Your Friends Close–And Your Donors Closer: A Quick Guide to Improving Donor Stewardship
There are several definitions of the word stewardship. My favorite is “the job of taking…
Leveraging Lay Leadership
Do you have a sense that your nonprofit board could be playing a more significant…
Start Planning for Your Year-End Campaign, Now!
Let’s be honest. You are avoiding it. Planning for your year-end campaign always seems so…
What ROI Should You Expect from Your Nonprofit Video?
In the fundraising world, ‘storytelling’ is the buzzword du jour. Written stories, face-to-face donor events,…
Speaker Series Event: Leveraging Lay Leadership
This Speakers Series session is presented in partnership with Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership’s Fundraisers Forum. Please Join Us For Our Next Speaker Series Event! Leveraging Lay Leadership Hear experts on philanthropy and fundraising.Network with peers from other organizations.Master new ways to raise funds. Amy Schiffman, CFRE, is Co-Founder and…
Giving Tree’s Jamie Klobuchar quoted in Crain’s Chicago Business
Youthful energy fuels nonprofits’ junior boards Well-managed affiliate, associate and young professionals’ boards bring fresh…
September 18 Speaker Series Event
Leveraging Lay Leadership On September 18, 2019, Giving Tree Associates presented a professional development and…
ICYMI: Speaker Series Web-based Event!
Speaker Series event:Your Path to the C-Suite: Career Development for Women in Nonprofit Leadership On…
New Top-Level Domain Names Can Help Brand Your Organization
Is your nonprofit launching a new campaign or considering a name change? If so, you…
Finding the Support You Need to Succeed
As March draws to a close, we’ve been talking a lot about Women’s History Month…
Speaker Series Web-based Event!
Please join us for our next Speaker Series event:Your Path to the C-Suite: Career Development…
Creating a Major Donor Prospect List
Does the thought of starting a major gifts program overwhelm you? If you’re like many…
Is March too Late for New Year’s Resolutions?
Welcome to the very first edition of Giving Tree Associates’ quarterly newsletter, the L.E.A.F., our…
A Successful Campaign – and We Don’t Just Mean Dollars Raised
Congratulations, Lake County Haven (LCH), on completing your first ever capital campaign! Giving Tree is…