By Jim Bush, Winkler Group President and Principal When the economy is strong, giving is strong. Too many fundraising professionals are still hiding behind economic uncertainty as a reason to keep their ambitious plans on hold. It’s time to dust off those plans. Why? The experts predict strong economic growth for the rest of 2021. ...
It’s tempting for a trustee to dream about what could be accomplished with a new science lab, more scholarships, or even a larger endowment. It’s equally tempting to try to erase projected deficits or to fund necessary programs simply by raising fundraising goals. After all, a board member’s role includes being a visionary and ensuring...
written by Jessica Browning, Principal & Executive Vice Presidentoriginally featured as a guest blog for the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy Over the last twelve months, philanthropy has been on a roller coaster ride and we, as fundraising professionals, have done our best to hold on. Many of us closed our eyes in fear...
Veteran Fundraiser to Head New Office Charleston—The Winkler Group has expanded to New York. Tim Smeal, a career nonprofit fundraiser with two decades of experience, has been tapped to lead the firm’s new office. Tim is the former Director of Development at the Jamestown Community College Foundation, where he oversaw the campaign study for the...
American Battlefield Trust, a Winkler Group partner based in Washington, D.C., received a $300,000 gift from the Darla Moore Foundation to support the Liberty Trail. The gift is yet another example of a significant trend we are seeing in philanthropy: donors are actively giving major gifts despite the pandemic. The Liberty Trail, launched in 2019...
Written by Rachel Santos, Marketing, Sales, and Client Services Coordinator We’ve redesigned our resources page with you in mind. We’re delighted to announce the second edition of our resources page on the Winkler Group website. In 2004, the Winkler Group first introduced our unique brand of servant leadership to the fundraising and strategic planning world. ...
Guest post by Teri Behrens, Ph.D, and Michael Layton, Ph.D This post first appeared as part of the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy's 11 Trends in Philanthropy for 2021 report in January 2021. View the full report at this link: https://johnsoncenter.org/trends The Nonprofit Ecosystem At the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, we think of philanthropy as...
Three Reasons to Be Optimistic About Independent School Fundraising in 2021 written by Jessica Browning, Principal & Executive Vice Presidentoriginally published in the Feb 10, 2021 SAIS eNewsletter SAIS (02/10/2021) – It may sound counterintuitive, but we see significant opportunity for independent schools to realize philanthropic growth in 2021, particularly in major gifts. So many...
Written by Jim Bush, Principal and President KPIs Donors are actively giving large and transformational gifts despite the pandemic. We’ve seen ample evidence of generosity across the country and across nonprofit sectors. There are two primary factors motivating today’s record gifts. Understanding these motivators is key to securing the transformational gifts that are on the...
Written by Jessica Browning, Principal and Executive Vice President KPIs Giving during the pandemic has surprised us—in a good way. From the beginning, we predicted that donors would be generous in response to the crisis, but we weren’t prepared for the levels of generosity we’ve witnessed. AFP’s Fundraising Effectiveness Project, which tracks quarterly giving in...
The generous will prosper: those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.
(Proverbs 11:25)
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