Nonprofit

A Few Steps to Grow Your Relationship Building and Fundraising

Simplifying your fundraising into daily and weekly actions.

Dan Hanley
2 min readMay 15, 2024

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Lily pads at the Getty Villa. Photo credit: Author

Meeting with a client and going over their fundraising plan.

A lot of great information, strategies, ideas.

A broad picture of what their relationship building and fundraising will look like in the next year.

Too broad.

In many cases, those in fundraising, especially those who feel like they are struggling in efforts to connect with donors and increase the flow of vital funds, want a quick, specific suggestion.

It could also be a reminder of something they used to do in the past, and for some reason have stopped.

Meetings, board needs, lack of leadership, keeping staff, a budget that isn’t supported by anyone, consistently feeling overwhelmed, more meetings: all of this makes it increasingly difficult to fundraise, and actions we have done in the past become distant memories.

Self-doubt starts becoming a regular visitor. Then imposter syndrome.

It’s time to get back to what you know works.

Here are a few actions that always have worked for me in building and growing my…

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Dan Hanley
Dan Hanley

Written by Dan Hanley

I write about nonprofits, fundraising, recruiting, self-care. Human rights, domestic violence, borders, and refugee focused. Sober. Vegan. https://altrui.org/

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