Courtney Backen
Finding Friends and Finding Donors: Two Sides of the Same Coin
If you’re anything like me, then making friends as an adult is hard. When we’re kids and in...
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What Fall Fundraising & Dinner Parties Have in Common
Growing up, one of my core memories was my mom hosting our family for fancy appetizers and a meal...
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Where does rest fall into the donor cycle?
We’ve all heard the statistic: the average tenure of a development director is 18 months. Some...
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It's a fundraising marathon—and we see you
Before I joined the GiveMN team, every December as a fundraiser meant I was sending a flurry of...
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Three things I learned about fundraising when I started to unpack my personal relationship to money
When I entered the nonprofit sector nearly ten years ago, I had just accepted a position as a...
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