Here’s the thing I wish more new Fundraisers heard right at the beginning of their fundraising journey…
Fundraising is hard and always will be. It’s also joyful.
Fundraisers need the emotional strength to ask people for help. You also have to figure out the right people to ask & the right time to ask them & the right way to ask them.
Additionally, you’re regularly exposed to the problem or situation your nonprofit was founded to address.
And yet… fundraising can bring incredible joy if you let it. The fundraising work you do helps fund the incredible programs your organization operates. Those programs cause the change that your organization exists to make.
And you know those donors you have? The ones who have no programs and no way of helping on their own? You make it possible for them to help in powerful ways, and they love to help.
And you get the satisfaction of doing the courageous, emotionally vulnerable hard work of asking for help.
I get deep joy in doing all the hard things to succeed in fundraising in order to fund programs and connect with donors, and I hope you do too.
Steven Screen is Co-Founder of The Better Fundraising Company and lead author of its blog. With over 30 years' fundraising experience, he gets energized by helping organizations understand how they can raise more money. He’s a second-generation fundraiser, a past winner of the Direct Mail Package of the Year, and data-driven.
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- Steven Screenhttps://betterfundraising.com/author/steven/
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