Executive Director Goals

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google no

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things i want to tell my ED: get your shit together

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I just got off the phone with a donor who’s drawl was so thick you could hear the civil war in it. He spent the entire call bashing on TN and we bonded over the shit state of the south

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when you love your donors so much that you spend all day crafting personalized emails and get a dozen inquiries back to speak with you on the phone

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“ In addition to being puzzled that there aren't millions marching (we need a general strike if you ask me) I'm sorry I don't have millions to donate, but I'll send a few dollars here and there as I can.Thanks for saying hello and keep up the good work.”

I fucking love my donors

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I’ve been sending personal emails to donors thanking them for their feedback on a donor survey for 1.5 hours now and I need a fucking break

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That moment when you rapid fire off a couple cold emails and you forgot to edit on fill in the blank section of the company’s name and you are mortified 

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OK but gay country music would go so hard though. Ladies singing about the girl in cut offs sitting next to them in their truck, dudes singing about showing off for the farmers son, bi people singing about how the county fair is hot but it ain’t cause of the heat. 90% of country music could be fixed if we removed the heteronormativity

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The other 10% of country music is fine just the way it is cause that’s the 10% that’s women singing about killing their abusive husbands. 

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@anotheralexandros

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tonight i am drinking an entire bottle of wine by myself while doing important data entry for a national conference

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30 Day Writing Challenge to Become a Better Development/Executive Director

1. Write 10 facts about yourself

2. Describe a time your nonprofit failed horribly 

3. Describe the daily life of an archetype of one of your donor bases

4. Where will your nonprofit be in 6 months?

5. Where will your nonprofit be in 10 years?

6. A dialogue where you fail to secure a donation.

7. A dialogue where you win the heart of a prospect. 

8. What was your journey into the nonprofit world?

9. A time where one of your volunteers did something extraordinary

10. The first paragraph of a grant of your ideal program 

11. One of your favorite personal successes 

12. Dialogue of a conversation you wish you could have with your Board Chair

13. Describe the journey of a major donor to your nonprofit 

14. The hardest day at your job 

15. Compose 10 tweets about one of your programs 

16. The first paragraph of a blog announcing exciting news from an existing program 

17. The first paragraph of an email announcing a new program 

18. Why should someone donate to your nonprofit?

19. What do your nonprofit fundamentally do?

20. Were your nonprofit to be successful, what would the world look like?

21. Tell the story of the demise of your competitor 

22. From the perspective of a donor, why are they loyal to your nonprofit?

23. From the perspective of a volunteer, why are they loyal to your nonprofit?

24. Imagine a hypothetical event where everything that could go wrong did go wrong. 

25. You receive a mystery box sent to your nonprofit. What’s inside?

26. Compose an email celebrating the next big milestone for your nonprofit (5 years, 10 years, 25 years, etc.) 

27. What would be someone’s experience if they walked into your office the day before a grant was due?

28. What’s your favorite story to tell a donor?

29. Why did you join your nonprofit?

30. What kind of leader do you want to be?