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...

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...

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...

Finding new donors is not that different than finding friends as an adult

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...

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...