Lilya Wagner continues, in this column with Patrice Hieb, her series on handling fundraisers’ leadership nightmares.

This is the concluding installment on the recent column that advised fundraisers on dealing with executives who don’t really understand what it is that development professionals do. On this topic, I’ve asked colleagues to help …

Leadership Nightmares and How To Wake Up From Them
Is there anyone of us fundraising professionals who has not been asked at some time in our lives, “What do you really do?”
In my case, my previous …

Is everything spinning out of control in your world? The economy has wreaked havoc with your fundraising goal.  Major donors don’t return phone calls.  The board pressures you to find new donors, when you know …

John is chief development officer of a medical school foundation.  The CEO of the foundation and CFO have met and discussed the budget, and he expected to be consulted about the amount of money he …

In the last few weeks the Washington DC area has been hit by a bit of snow which quickly turned side streets, sidewalks and driveways into glare ice as the temperatures went up and down like Yo-Yos. While creeping along with traffic on the way to work, I listened to early morning news on my car radio. One tragic story of an apartment fire caught my attention.

onPhilanthropy presents the fourth installment of this column, which will share with readers a real-world fundraising problem.

onPhilanthropy presents the third installment of this monthly column, which will share with readers a real-world fundraising problem. Readers are invited to submit solutions to the problem presented; the best will be selected by a panel of professionals and published in a subsequent issue of onPhilanthropy.

onPhilanthropy presents the second installment of this monthly column, which will share with readers a real-world fundraising problem. Readers are invited to submit solutions to the problem presented; the best will be selected by a panel of professionals and published in a subsequent issue of onPhilanthropy.

onPhilanthropy presents the second installment of this monthly column, which will share with readers a real-world fundraising problem. Readers are invited to submit solutions to the problem presented; the best will be selected by a panel of professionals and published in a subsequent issue of onPhilanthropy.

Growing up rather impoverished as a refugee child, one of the many deprivations I experienced was a lack of children’s books. I read whatever was handy, but mostly these were adult books, and often in several different languages.

Today the fundraising profession seems to also be facing two roads. The question, are we technicians or professionals, has gained prominence. How do those outside our profession those who hire us, those who work with us, the general public, government officials, our international colleagues, and others view us?