457. 4 Fundraising Tips to Transform Your Fundraising - Mallory Erickson

We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits

We Are For Good Podcast - The Podcast for Nonprofits
457. 4 Fundraising Tips to Transform Your Fundraising - Mallory Erickson
Aug 11, 2023 Season 7
We Are For Good

Meet Mallory. This former nonprofit executive director hit rock bottom as she burned out on the nonprofit grind. Her saving grace: discovering an uncanny connection between coaching and fundraising. Since then, her unique programs combine her technical fundraising expertise with rockstar coaching skills to address the fears and discomforts around asking for money. And she's got the secret sauce to transform your annual fundraising plan. Tune in!

Today’s Guest
Mallory Erickson, Founder + CEO, Power Partners Formula

Episode Highlights

  • 4 fundraising tips to transform your fundraising this year: awareness, goal setting, power partner focus, and shifting the culture of your organization
  • How to shift your mindset as a fundraiser: it starts with awareness
  • The true superpowers of fundraising: vulnerability and authenticity
  • You can’t be authentic and perfect. You can choose to be an authentic fundraiser, or a perfectionist
  • Set a conservative budget goal, and an audacious fundraising goal
  • Mallory’s Power Partner Focus, and how to implement it to transform your fundraising and donor cultivation
  • How to better engage your board members and volunteers
  • Mallory’s One Good Thing: Pull the data. It is easy to attach to something and believe it is true. We believe this because of a belief about ourselves, not because of data.

For more information + episode details visit: weareforgood.com/episode/457.

Learn how to raise more from the right funders without hounding people for money during Mallory's FREE Webinar on Thursday, August 17 at 12:00 p.m. CT. Sign up here


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