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You love your community, but you know there are things that could be better and you want to have a positive impact. You look around and...
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Dana Schuler Drummond
- Aug 13, 2021
- 4 min
501c...yada, yada, yada
It’s a simple question for grant seekers in the US: What is your organization’s tax status? I saw this on an application recently and...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Aug 5, 2021
- 1 min
Four Horsemen of the Nonprofit Apocalypse
Video: https://youtu.be/KvuH-FwkkyM Four Horsemen of the Nonprofit board Apocalypse: Failure to understand and/or adopt nonprofit best...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Jun 28, 2020
- 2 min
Happy New (Fiscal) Year!
It's that time of year again! Well, not for all nonprofits. Or the federal government. But for a lot of organizations we are reaching the...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Jun 8, 2020
- 3 min
To Hire or Not To Hire a Grant Writer
(I may not be Shakespeare, but I do have some great lines every now and then.) It seems like we are getting tons of requests along the...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- May 25, 2020
- 3 min
Resource Fatigue
Fatigue seems to be the word of the week (every week) since the pandemic hit the United States. Our nonprofits are fatigued from the...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Apr 27, 2020
- 2 min
Great News for Oklahoma Arts, Humanities and Cultural Organizations!
Right now it seems like every time I come up for air more weeks have passed, and here we are at the end of April. How?! Time has gotten...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Apr 9, 2020
- 2 min
A New Digital Age?
When a nonprofit's work is to serve those in need, how do we ensure that people are learning about vital services offered when everyone...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Mar 16, 2020
- 3 min
Things to Remember (and do)
It is hard to keep track of the days right now (and it is only going to get harder before it gets better). In between the numerous calls...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Mar 2, 2020
- 4 min
Digital Checklist for Success
In this day and age your digital presence is vital for fundraising success. As millennials are reaching their 30s (and even 40s) they are...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Jan 6, 2020
- 3 min
New Year New Resolution
We were crunching our last year's numbers, and I realized that we had a success rate of 58%. Most grant writers average around 10% - 30%,...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Dec 2, 2019
- 3 min
Yet Another Ranking Site for Nonprofits
We all know about how funders want to make sure that the check they write you isn't the last check you ever receive. We've also seen the...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Nov 18, 2019
- 3 min
Make Leota Happy - Write a Thank You Note
My beloved grandmother Leota Schuler never went to college, was never wealthy and was certainly never famous (you've never heard of her,...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Sep 16, 2019
- 3 min
Is a Life of Stewardship Right for You?
I get a lot of phone calls (in case you couldn't tell) from people who want to know how to get money for their organization from funders...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Sep 9, 2019
- 2 min
Are You Ready to Seek Grants?
It seems like every week I say, "This is the most asked question I receive." This week is no exception because I am constantly asked,...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Aug 26, 2019
- 4 min
Development Director Burnout
*Phone rings* "This is Dana." "Hi, Dana. It's X. We have a new development director. Again." Over my 30 year career, I have received this...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Aug 19, 2019
- 4 min
Stewardship Made Easy...
Send a few emails, make a couple calls and maybe attend a funder's event or conference then you're golden right? Stewardship made easy!...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Nov 26, 2018
- 2 min
The Board Series: The Management Role
Board of Directors have a legal responsibility to the nonprofit of the board on which they serve, as we discussed earlier, and they also...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Nov 19, 2018
- 2 min
The Board Series: The Legal Role
For the last two weeks of "The Board Series", we will explore the roles the Board plays. This week? The legal role. Nonprofit boards can...
Dana Schuler Drummond
- Nov 12, 2018
- 4 min
The Board Series: Guiding Documents
Before you can effectively implement a grant-seeking strategy, your board must follow particular guidelines and have the proper guiding...
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