Thoughts from the Group

Explore the DRG blog for fresh ideas on all things donor experience, leadership, team building, donor relations, and change management.

The 7 Emails You Should Be Sending After a 1st Time Gift

Guest post by Jess Campbell Us nonprofits? We’ve got a major problem. I’m talking HUGE. Want to know what it is? While we are coming off...

8 Steps to Improving Your Development Storytelling

Guest post by Kristin Hanson Stories are a foundational building block of development communications. We can’t create effective...

13 Tips for Writing for Donor Relations

The power of a well-written appeal, acknowledgment, or impact report, can not be underestimated. Connecting to your donors through...

Feeling Lucky: Tips to Finally Getting Those Narrative Reports

By Sarah Sims When it comes to endowment reporting, impact reporting, or general impact storytelling, we can often feel very “unlucky”...

5 Tips for Crafting Your Next Interviewee Video

By Tyler Wessel The majority of our entertainment is now some form of video. Just think about the rise of Netflix, Hulu, YouTube TV,...

Marie Kondo Your Donor Communications

By Lynne Wester Well, we’ve all been seduced by another trend from another thought leader asking us to tidy up our lives. I was all in...

Are Your Communications Truly Inclusive?

Let’s talk about something that’s going to make some of you really uncomfortable: diversity and inclusion. In the nonprofit world, we all...

The Power of Thank You

There are so many ways to say thank you, but sometimes it seems like the most difficult task. Why is that? We know it's important – many...

The First Step in Improving Your Acknowledgement Letters

Thoughtful, personal, and timely gift acknowledgement letters are the very core of donor relations and stewardship. They are a mandatory...

Why Every Nonprofit Needs to Create Video Content Right Now

When’s the last time you took a break from your work, grabbed your phone and scrolled through social media, stopping on the latest video...

Writing Considerations to Make it Fabulous!

As a follow-up to Lynne’s recent post in support of brevity in your writing, here are some other things to take in to consideration in...

Welcome Emails and Thank Yous that Work

Recently, the discussion of email thank yous has been a hot topic. When are they appropriate, who gets them, why email and not just a...