Why Authenticity is Key for Fundraisers: Insights and Tips

I am acutely aware of the unique challenges we, as female fundraisers, face in the fundraising landscape. Having to navigate awful things like sexual harassment by donors, lower pay, and far fewer career advancement opportunities are obstacles that no one should ever have to experience, and yet we continue to rise.

PEOPLE GIVE TO PEOPLE–The importance of building authentic relationships with donors.

When it comes to fundraising, many people ask about my personal fundraising mantra: “People give to people…not to organizations.” This philosophy has sustained me over the course of two decades and has always proven to be true.

After two decades in fundraising, reaching an academic peak by way of an Ed.D., and becoming a homeowner, a dedicated wife, and a mother of two, I left it all in pursuit of autonomy and self-preservation…