When I was hired as a Development Associate for a mid-size nonprofit I had an interesting orientation…
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So, one school gala I helped to coordinate had each classroom submit a class-made item to be in the silent auction. One of the Kinder classrooms created a fabric quilt of sorts with every students' smiley face hand print on it. Well, this item was the hit of the auction and there wasn't anything 'silent' about it…
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Early on in my fundraising career, I worked at a small nonprofit that heavily relied on corporate funding and was trying to grow its individual donor base…
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Every summer our organization had an intern in the fundraising department. They would help with database entry, gift acknowledgements, and event preparation for about 15-20 hours a week, and it culminated in working the gala weekend in August before they returned to school.
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A few years ago, I was special events dIrector for an organization that had a peer-to-peer bowling event. Each year the event had a different theme and this particular year was dinosaurs…
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We receive a grant each year from a small Jewish family foundation in Florida. The foundation was managed by the senior members of the family for several years, and the main point of contact, Beatrice (not her real name), would send grant invitations and award letters out to nonprofits well into her 90s…
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Nonprofits need to utilize every resource and asset they have, so when we created the theater’s Most Important Spring Marketing Brochure, it featured a photo that, looking back, may have been a poor choice…
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The party planning committee decided that a piñata would be a good activity for a (Spanish-speaking) employee’s last day party…
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We got a new office manager and leadership was so impressed with her “attention to detail”…
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My position was as the administrator of a new human services app for a nonprofit…
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