Thoughts from the Group

By Colton Withers I've been told time and again that my cover letters are wow-inducing. I know, a strange flex, right? Of all the...

By Colton Withers Why do so many nonprofit organizations still cling to donor honor rolls as a way to recognize donors for their giving?...

By Madelyn C. Jones If every story worth telling is an asset, then there is a good chance you are leaving money on the table by not...

By Kristin Hanson Higher education and nonprofit communications teams tend to turn their noses up at donor profiles. Their reaction isn’t...

By Sarah Sims Quick! What is the average adult attention span these days? 8 seconds! (And the attention of a goldfish is 9 seconds!) In...

By the DRG Group You know that feeling when an email lands in your inbox or you open a piece of mail that leaves you speechless and maybe...

Among the silver linings of the ongoing disruption to our work lives these past two years (think: flexible work options and yoga pants as...

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning There are so many ways our donors provide our organizations...

Special thanks to Gina Parente and Brandeis International Business School for sharing their team's brilliant work and the process behind...

Guest post by Kristin Hanson You just closed calendar year 2021 – congratulations! After a well-deserved pat on the back, think back to...

By Lynne Wester Lately, I’ve been making some gifts to different organizations. And I’ve been noticing that many of them are really...

Guest post by Jess Campbell Us nonprofits? We’ve got a major problem. I’m talking HUGE. Want to know what it is? While we are coming off...

Guest post by Kristin Hanson Stories are a foundational building block of development communications. We can’t create effective...

The power of a well-written appeal, acknowledgment, or impact report, can not be underestimated. Connecting to your donors through...

By Sarah Sims When it comes to endowment reporting, impact reporting, or general impact storytelling, we can often feel very “unlucky”...

By Tyler Wessel The majority of our entertainment is now some form of video. Just think about the rise of Netflix, Hulu, YouTube TV,...

By Lynne Wester Well, we’ve all been seduced by another trend from another thought leader asking us to tidy up our lives. I was all in...

Let’s talk about something that’s going to make some of you really uncomfortable: diversity and inclusion. In the nonprofit world, we all...

There are so many ways to say thank you, but sometimes it seems like the most difficult task. Why is that? We know it's important – many...

Thoughtful, personal, and timely gift acknowledgement letters are the very core of donor relations and stewardship. They are a mandatory...