Cover Your Fees, and Follow Up – Little Ideas for Big Impact

Make the Ask, and Follow-Up Your donors understand that there is a cost to doing business in today’s digital world, even if that business is a philanthropic mission. So when you’re making...

Why it’s Time to Take Part in Giving Tuesday

It can be hard to believe that Giving Tuesday is only 7 years old. But rapid growth has made this a social (media) event that stands on the verge of cultural relevance and acceptance, and your...

Meme’s For Good! – Little Ideas for Big Impact

Memes For GOOD!! Social Media has fundamentally changed our world, for better and worse. And we can wring our hands about it, but as the old saying (wrongly attributed to Mark Twain) goes;...

Click Clack, Click Clack, Click….

I’m not the biggest fan in the world of roller coasters. I like them just fine, just not going out of my way to find them. And by far the worst part of the ride is that slow ascent. The...

Scottish Snowplows and You – Little Ideas for Big Impact

Scottish Snowplows (Really) So first an English lesson, since we are, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, “Two peoples separated by a common language” A Gritter is a Snowplow/Salt...