Our dear old Uncle Sam has a fistful of one hundred dollar bills. He lines up five of his nieces and nephews along a wall.  “Alright,” he says. “I’ve got a fistful of cash. I’ll give it to whoever ...

Alex Comfort, CFRE Anyone who is a non-profit professional understands the challenge of getting Board Members to grasp fully their fiduciary responsibility:  they are to help raise the funding for ...

A few short weeks ago, I wrote about the new administration in a reserved, but hopeful manner. While our crystal ball for grant funding was pretty cloudy, I remained cautiously optimistic. Since th...

Alex Comfort, CFRE What great nuggets stay in your brain from college?  One for me came from THE GREAT LITERATURE PROFESSOR. You know, the one you had to take even though he was so hard your grade ...

Alex Comfort, CFRE Recently I convened a group of 6 fundraisers who held a position of “Director of Development” or some title like that.  Four were fairly new to the profession, and two were exper...

We have just received word from the Tennessee Department of Education that they plan to release the RFP for the next Lottery for Education Afterschool Programs (LEAPs) and 21st Century Community Le...

Lately, we have been helping a lot of clients through the process of analyzing their strategic plans to identify critical actions, then plotting those critical actions on a Logic Model to design ef...