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Thoughts from the Group
Explore the DRG blog for fresh ideas on all things donor experience, leadership, team building, donor relations, and change management.
5 Key Elements of Your Endowment Report
By Sarah Sims Many of us are gearing up for annual endowment reporting season, and now is the time to be making strategic decisions about...
Checking In On Your Checklist
By Jan McGuire In the later years of his life, my Dad would say, "Christmas comes earlier every year." I didn't understand what he meant...
8 Steps to Improving Your Development Storytelling
Guest post by Kristin Hanson Stories are a foundational building block of development communications. We can’t create effective...
What We Wish We Had Known When We Started in Donor Relations
Our team at the DRG Group each have 20+ years of experience in the donor relations profession—and we've learned a lot along the way. This...
Tips for Returning to the Office
By Angie Joens Well, it is almost time—much of the world is seeing the light at the end of this pandemic tunnel. More people are becoming...
The One Where We Talk About Mental Health
By Lynne Wester Until March 13th, 2020, I lived for the skies, the highways, and heck even the railways. For the past 7 years I have...
5 Things to Consider Right Now as You Plan for Fall Events
By Matthew S. Helmer It’s a curious time across much of the world, as vaccine accessibility begins to break apart the dark clouds of the...
Great Reads for Summer
By the DRG Group All of us at the DRG Group believe that you should never stop learning. Reading is one of the best ways to expand your...
Honoring Donor Intent Now and In the Future
By Jan McGuire Honoring donor intent is a critical component of fundraising. It's vital when a donor establishes an endowment. ...
Work the Problem
By Lynne Wester Often times, as a consultant I am put in some very interesting positions and dilemmas for non profit fundraisers. One of...
Engaging International Donors
By Angie Joens What I wouldn’t give to jump on a plane set for exotic foreign lands like—China, Singapore, India, Europe, Australia, or...
13 Tips for Writing for Donor Relations
The power of a well-written appeal, acknowledgment, or impact report, can not be underestimated. Connecting to your donors through...
Top 5 Habits to Break Right Now
By Keturi DeLong I'm a huge supporter of examining and reexamining our work—always pushing to be better today than we were yesterday. A...
Tips to Providing Constructive Feedback
By Jan McGuire Providing constructive feedback that resonates the right way isn’t a skill that comes easily to most of us. Most often,...
A Wakeup Call For Non-Profits: Donor Relations MATTERS
By Lynne Wester Have you ever had someone you love so much disappoint you in a way that you couldn't get over? I'm there this week and...
Spring Cleaning: Where to Start
At the DRG Group, we love spring cleaning! It's a chance to organize, purge, and reevaluate. But spring cleaning means so much more to us...
Women in Philanthropy
By Angie Joens March is designated as Women’s History Month but honestly there are so many amazing women to celebrate we need more than a...
Spring Forward: A Reckoning within the Reemergence
By Matthew S. Helmer Throughout my career in higher education, spring has consistently been a season of hyperactive planning for a new...
Feeling Lucky: Tips to Finally Getting Those Narrative Reports
By Sarah Sims When it comes to endowment reporting, impact reporting, or general impact storytelling, we can often feel very “unlucky”...
Everything is NOT fine. The Free Advice You Need to Hear Right Now
It’s been a common motto for the DRG Group throughout 2020 (and into 2021): It’s fine. I’m fine. Everything is fine. We even have the...
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