Roewen Wishart

When fundraisers change positions, it’s important they protect donors’ trust by using their prior knowledge with professionalism. Roewen Wishart suggests some dos and don’ts to protect yourself, the donor and both former and future employers. When fundraisers change positions, it’s important they protect donors’ trust by using their prior knowledge with professionalism. Roewen Wishart suggests some dos and don’ts to protect yourself, the donor and both former and future employers. With the job mobility of major gift, foundation and corporate partnership fundraisers, it’s not long before most salaried fundraisers could be cultivating or soliciting donors whom they know about, or know personally, from working for a previous employer. This situation…

Roewen Wishart discovers how a well executed matched giving program can double a nonprofit’s rewards. Roewen Wishart discovers how a well executed matched giving program can double a nonprofit’s rewards. Did you think the term leverage died with the passing of the global financial crisis? The leverage of matched donation programs appeals to some donors. In these programs, a source donor or government funder matches gifts by other responding donors, commonly in a fixed ratio to a capped amount. Both the source and responding donors may like that the cause will receive a multiplied amount, while some like the feeling that their gift will be multiplied and others like both…