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Strategic Restructuring
Our ongoing discussions with nonprofit leaders reveal that organizations are asking how they can enhance partnerships, create alliances, collaborate on programs and share management services in an effort to reduce costs yet still maximize mission and programs for those they serve. In many ways, all organizations (be it nonprofits and for profits) are realizing that […]
Time to ask? #GivingTuesday is almost here!
Time heals. And while we are still confined to social distancing, we are seeing that daily life continues and organizations are in a new phase of work – thinking about the future and getting back to a new normal. The top question we have been receiving is whether it is okay to start asking for […]
Teamwork → Results
Teamwork, sustainable growth, ethical practices and results are part of Ashley|Rountree and Associates’ framework for doing business. Ashley|Rountree is operating with its entire team of trusted advisors providing tactics and strategies for much needed operating capital. We recently designed a fee-reduced plan that is helping nonprofits take full advantage of immediate opportunities while also establishing your organization […]
Making the Request
The latest news for our country seems to be a bit more promising than in recent weeks and certainly we are hoping to begin to move towards recovery sooner rather than later. We are always moving forward, and the team at Ashley|Rountree has been making many calls to former and current clients. What we are […]
Communication with Governing Boards
On Sunday, we as a nation learned that we would be asked to continue social distancing through April 30. For the health of community and nation this is a good thing for us to embrace. But as an employee and leader of an organization trying to move your mission forward, this may seem like devasting […]
Making Your Development & Communication Efforts Strategic
We hope this message finds you and your family healthy and safe. These are unprecedented times and we are learning as a community to take each day as it comes. Information seems to be updated hourly and coming at us all in such a rapid pace. During these times, the Ashley|Rountree team is committed to […]
The Importance of Strong Volunteer Leadership for Our Charities
Did you ever wonder how a nonprofit organization is created? You may think it’s all about legal paperwork and countless forms filed with faceless managers at the Internal Revenue Service and our state’s Attorney General’s office. It’s true enough: it takes a lot of paper to win tax-exemption for a charity (and it should; those […]
Is Social Media the Fund Development Professional’s Magic Bullet?
In light of the ALS Association’s recent epic success, the nonprofit industry is abuzz with talk of how to recreate the next Ice Bucket Challenge. Increasingly, board members are looking to development staff to devise a plan using social media to increase gift income. Development staffers are spending countless hours brainstorming the next big social […]
Maximizing Meetings: 3 M’s to Make Event Committee Meetings Meaningful
Sometimes meetings make you want to tear your hair out. You know—one of those meetings that tangents off the agenda to debate the most inane topic possible aiding nothing at all to the assignment at hand. A meeting like my first sorority meeting 25 years ago in which the girls were hotly debating over the […]
Is Email a Top Fundraising Strategy?
Galas, direct mail, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer events, email campaigns . . . there are so many fundraising initiatives to choose from as we start planning for 2017! So what is the most efficient and effective tactic? What is going to bring in the broadest base of support in 2017 for our nonprofit organizations? According to the […]