How Technology Is Reshaping Advancement Collaboration [The EverTrue Evangelist]
My development career began long before Al Gore invented the Internet, back when prospect research meant going to the library to look up newspaper articles on microfiche or to search old S&P stock filings. Gift officers viewed researchers as glorified librarians—a source of information to be tapped when needed, but not necessarily a strategic part […]
What to Do When the Prospect Cancels [The EverTrue Evangelist]
This is another installment of The EverTrue Evangelist, a blog series about the challenges facing advancement professionals and how EverTrue’s GivingTree can help. If you missed Jim’s first two posts, check them out here and here. Any fundraiser who travels is well aware how challenging it is to set up good prospecting meetings around an anchor visit. I know from […]
5 Reasons Why We’re Excited to Attend bbcon 2015
This October, the EverTrue team is heading to bbcon 2015, the largest annual gathering of Blackbaud users. This is quickly becoming one of our favorite conferences of the year, and we’re especially looking forward to being in Austin, TX for this year’s event. Here’s why. 1. We love seeing our customers. With more than 350 […]
5 Reasons Why We're Excited to Attend bbcon 2015
This October, the EverTrue team is heading to bbcon 2015, the largest annual gathering of Blackbaud users. This is quickly becoming one of our favorite conferences of the year, and we’re especially looking forward to being in Austin, TX for this year’s event. Here’s why. 1. We love seeing our customers. With more than 350 […]
So You Want to Run a Database Query? [The EverTrue Evangelist]
Welcome back to The EverTrue Evangelist! You may remember from my first post that this is an ongoing series about the challenges of advancement professionals. Having spent three decades in fundraising—and now the chief evangelist at EverTrue—I’m excited to explore how EverTrue’s software provides remarkable solutions to these challenges. First up: Why is running […]
Introducing the EverTrue Evangelist: Our Mission to Reinvent Fundraising
This is the first post in Jim Zimmerman’s new blog series, The EverTrue Evangelist. My long career in development began as an accident. Well, perhaps not an accident so much as a convenient excuse for this poli sci major to avoid law school. And so I stayed on at my alma mater (Bucknell) for a […]
Why Don’t (Many) Development Leaders Embrace LinkedIn?
Nearly 9 out of every 10 business executives use LinkedIn “often” or “very often” according to BusinessNewsDaily. LinkedIn unquestionably has become the leading professional network and is viewed by many in business as an essential tool in hiring, networking, and building and strengthening the corporation’s brand. Yet many leaders in university advancement don’t seem to […]
CARA Conference: The Plight of the Prospect Researcher
Recently, I ventured to Palm Springs for the annual CARA (California Advancement Researchers Association) Conference. EverTrue was pleased to be a sponsoring partner of the conference, appropriately headlined “Hot Springs, Cool Prospects.” For those who have never experienced 108-degree temperatures, I highly recommend proximity to an air conditioning vent and a tall, frosty glass. There was plenty […]
Lessons from an Extraordinary Alumni Gala and Auction
I’m not a Middlesex School alum. Yet, having spent almost 19 years there as Director of Development, I felt attached to the school enough — and close enough to a big group of alumni and parents — that when I learned the Middlesex Alumni Association (MXAA) Gala would be held on a night when I […]
