Thoughts from the Group

I love being a parent. It’s the most challenging, humbling and awe-inspiring thing I’ve ever done. Of course, as any parent will tell...

Labor Day – the unofficial end of summer in the United States. It is a federal holiday and the last long weekend before fall. Most of...

For many of us, summer is waning, school is back in session and for some of us, it means our favorite season, football season, is mere...

I am not going to lie. I like doing fund audits and fund stewardship. I like taking the jumbled mess and making sense of it, analyzing...

Change is the only constant. The nonprofit world seems to be in a hesitant state of maintenance, a vast veil of denial that holds it...

August 1. I circle this date on my calendar every year, and I dread its arrival. August 1 is the day that summer ends. Not literally, of...

Seriously – why is this so hard? We are a society that can help ourselves with just about anything. If we are sick we can look online and...

Metrics are hard! However, they can be your best friend too. They can open doors, help advocate for much needed resources, and help you...

Remember the awesome arcade game Whac-A-Mole? Where the gophers pop up out of their holes and you have to pound them back down with your...

I am a gay man. It took 19 years for me to say those words to another person, and I had spent most of those vehemently denying it was...

I hope you enjoy this guest post from my friend and colleague Cristy Racy, the Director of Donor Programs and Engagement at the Oklahoma...

It’s almost summer time and you know what that means – lazy days, vacation, and time to spare! Well, maybe not quite that much extra...

As the fiscal year end comes near for many of you, you might be wondering what to do with some surplus funds left over in your spend it...

Written by DRG Group Member, Angela Joens Have you seen the movie Jerry McGuire? Tom Cruise plays Jerry McGuire, a sports agent that is...

Pardon the cheesy pun. This spring, giving days have taken over the annual giving scene. Some days this spring I have seen 7-10...

As I sit here at Sarah Sims’ daughters tee-ball game, I realize that tee-ball and donor relations have stunning similarities. Here are...

Often times donor relations professionals are tasked with many things under the sun to support our fundraising partners. The next newest...

Revamping and retooling any program can be a maddening enterprise full of twists and turns, lost directions and dead ends. But if you...

I have a crush…his name is Simon Sinek.  He is a British-American author, motivational speaker and marketing consultant and the author of...