The ABCs of fundraising failure

Thanks for joining us for another episode of the Donor Growth podcast.?Listen on?Apple Podcasts,?Spotify, and?everywhere else.

What keeps organizations from growing once they’ve hit a certain maturity??

On this week’s podcast, we discuss 3 challenges we’ve seen that hinder fundraising growth:

1. Arrogance: Thinking your org is “too important” to fail—or too big, or too well known, or too loved, etc. Money will keep coming in because, clearly, you’re awesome.
2. Bureaucracy: Excessive processes and a lack of nimbleness in decision-making. When decision-making processes become overly bureaucratic, the outcome stops being progress—and it starts being “following process.”
3. Complacency: Being complacent can lead to a lack of focus on continuous improvement. This is a dangerous place to be, because the house isn’t on fire. Things are running smoothly. All is well. But underneath it all, entropy might be setting in.

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4 Quotes this Week

1. "Where we all work on building something together,"
2. "It's charity golf tournament season ?"
3. "When someone says: "She's a great fundraiser," here's what they really mean:"
4. "Start testing in fundraising with these 4 tips."

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ABOUT THE HOSTS

Mike Duerksen hosts?the Build Good Fundraising Podcast.?He’s the founder and CEO of?BuildGood, a fundraising agency that helps nonprofits raise more money from individual donors.

Louis Diez advises nonprofits in annual fund development, digital fundraising, and engagement strategies. He's the host of the Donor Participation Project and founder of the Annual Fund Toolkit.