Shared Brain™

 

We've been in your shoes. Our Senior Consultants average 30 years of on-the-ground fundraising experience, across the spectrum. 

Build your fundraising capacity from our Shared Brain™ tip sheets, white papers and 15-Minute Mentor videos. Our collective knowledge brings you the best results.

Download these best-practice tips and tricks and check back regularly for new insights and helpful how-to's.

TIP SHEETS

CAMPAIGNS

• **NEW What Does it Take to Raise $15 million?
• Top 9 Principles of a Capital Campaign

TIME MANAGEMENT

• 6 Tips for Better Time Management

FUNDRAISING STRATEGY

• Ramp Up Fundraising for Fall 2020: Ask, Ask, ASK!
• 7 Steps to a More Comprehensive Fundraising Strategy

PROSPECTS

• 8 Top Tips for Effective Prospect Research
• Prospect Research & the Fundraising Cycle
• 7 Tips to Build Your Prospect Pipeline

DATA-DRIVEN FUNDRAISING

• Leveraging Data to Achieve Fundraising Success
• Artificial Intelligence Fundraising Checklist

MAJOR GIFTS

• Major Gift Solicitation during COVID-19

BOARDS

• Engaging Your Board
• 7 Tips to Help Board Members Get Comfortable Fundraising
• Board Evaluation Survey

MONTHLY GIVING

• 4 Steps to Building a Large Monthly Donor File

WHITE PAPERS

• Will Your Non-Profit Survive 2020? by Richard Walker.
  
  

5-MINUTE MENTOR

• **NEW: 3R's of Post-Pandemic Fundraising, a conversation with Jim Bindon and Corrie Fortner

• Dear Board Members: Busting Overhead Myths, a conversation with Jon Brandt and Janine Foster-Elmslie

15-MINUTE MENTOR

• **NEW: Managing Through Crisis for Charity Boards, a conversation with Peter McKinley, Kathy Butler, Joyanne Mitchell and Barry Knapp.
  

 

• Expediting: Leveraging Non-Profit Assets into a Revenue Stream with Richard Walker.
  
  

• Building Pluralism in the Non-Profit Sector with Ibrahim Inayatali, Esther Jang and Jeff Sodowsky.

 

• Leveraging Data to Achieve Fundraising Success with Peter McKinley, Lucy Ruiz and Randy Klassen.

 

• Ramp Up Fundraising for Fall 2020 with Steve Hubley, Kathy Butler and John Davies.
  

• Fundraising Leadership in a Crisis with Joyanne Mitchell, Jeff Sodowsky and Jon Brandt. 

• Major Gifts During a Crisis with major gift experts Guy Mallabone, Valerie Hoey and Chris Steeves.

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