You’ve asked for an index to help in locating posts by topic. Good idea. Who has time to scroll through everything that’s accumulating on Generous Matters? I know I haven’t — until now. What you see below is a work in progress. I’m creating the index on the run. If I’ve missed what you think is the best I’ve had to say on a particular theme, let me know. I’ll gladly add it to the appropriate category.
BOARD DEVELOPMENT
- Oh where, or where is the proud fundraising board?
- Tapping a treasure trove of governance wisdom
- Why telling boards governance matters, matters
- The board’s role in strategic change
- Essentials of good faith governance
- Board development and bread on water
- It takes a team to win the board game (part 1)
- It takes a team to win the board game (part 2)
- Love the board you’re with
- Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the fairest board of all?
- Don’t make strangers of former board members
- If I had a rich board, deedle, deedle, dum
- Wile E. Coyote and board recruitment strategies
- Advice to boards: In bad economic times, keep on doing the same good things
- The appropriately civil board
FUNDRAISING (GENERAL)
- Can you raise money in support of operations? Conventional wisdom or self-fulfilling prophesy
- Fundraising and eating elephants
- Doing good without us
- Cultivating new appreciation for an old friend (annual fund)
- Forget the stuff, give ‘em information
- And you thought fundraisers just raised funds
- Getting more from your digital development officer
- If you want to have them at hello
- Hot August tips for campaign success in faith-based settings
- Summer projects to make your fundraising program more productive (part 1)
- Summer projects to make your fundraising program more productive (part 2)
- Is your fundraising program punching above or below weight?
- Act now to break the insanity cycle in fundraising
- Testing your board’s campaign readiness
- Pomp, circumstance, and the senior class gift
- Overcoming first solicitation jitters
- On fishing and fundraising
- A paean to the lowly annual fund
FUNDRAISING AS MINISTRY
- Out of the mouths of donors
- My heart made me do it
- Riding the collaboration band wagon
- Worldview, theology, and the way we ask
- To your own self, be generous
- Seeing + believing = generous giving
- Let’s talk about crunch time for nonprofits
- The accidental stewardship educator
- Who’s the richest of them all?
- Sometimes the donor isn’t right
- When we fail to plan
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
- 360 degrees of misery (CEO evaluation)
- Trading up to a new funding model
- Evaluator, do no harm (CEO evaluation)
- Transformed for servant leadership
- Thumbs down to pessimism
- Bagging a different kind of CEO
- Thumbs up to optimism
- The devil is in the bylaws
- Hi-ho, CEO! Away!
- Even good ideas may have to die
- My kingdom for a good idea
- Going nowhere fast
STEWARDSHIP
- 10 things pastors should remember about giving
- Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the doors. Where are the givers?
- Reaching Millennials through stewardship evangelism
- Channeling Walter Brueggemann
- Teach your children (to give) well
- So what that evangelical leaders are divided over tithing?
- What would John Wesley tell Albert Pujols to do?
- Down to their last tithe
