By Rhen Hoehn, Director of Marketing
As you explore the possibility of embarking on a transformative capital campaign for your nonprofit, one of the most critical factors for success is strategic staffing.
With the right team in place, you can navigate the complexities of...
In this week's episode of the Petrus Development Show, we continue our Q+A series with Petrus president, Andrew Robison. Listen as Andrew and Rhen outline the intial steps for beginning a fundraising program. Yes, we know this is a very quick primer - it's 30 minutes on the best...
By Rhen Hoehn, Director of Marketing
Catholic nonprofits are quickly realizing that the future of their ministry relies on building a self-sustaining fundraising program.
In a time of shrinking Catholic demographics, relying on your budget to come from an organization like your diocese...
Happy Easter!
This Sunday morning, I was sitting with my four young kids and praying for a calm and peaceful time at Mass. As I was doing that, God brought it to my mind that there are seasons for everything. There are seasons for calm and peaceful times at Mass, and there are seasons for...
In this week's episode of the Petrus Development Show, we continue our Q+A series with Petrus president, Andrew Robison. Listen as Andrew and Rhen discuss the special blessing that monthly donors are for organizations. To that end, they offer suggestions on how to begin and grow...
By Mary Walker, Petrus Blog Contributor
“If a man has a 100 sheep and one of them goes astray,will he not leave the 99 in the hills and go in search of the stray?”(Matthew 18:12)
When the shepherd left the 99 sheep to go after the stray, he had confidence that the...
Here we go again! We continue our Petrus Development Show Q+A series on important development topics, but we're changing things up this episode. This week, Rhen interviews Tara Doyon, director of operations and senior consultant at Petrus, and Tara shares about all things major...
By Rhen Hoehn, Director of Marketing
I'm often asked, “Why would I spend time and money to go meet donors for coffee when I can just send them an email or letter?”
Or, “Wouldn’t it be easier and cheaper to put a little time into grant writing, rather than meeting...
Welcome back to the Petrus Development Show! We continue our Q+A series with Petrus president, Andrew Robison, and this week's discussion is about personality strengths and weaknesses and how those traits affect your fundraising.
Show Notes: ...
By Mary Walker, Petrus Blog Contributor
I love the late winter —the time when football season isn’t quite over, and basketball season is ramping up. There are WAY MORE games on TV than are good for me to watch!
On any team, players have “basic”...
While we start this episode with a joke, donor databases are a very serious matter. As you'll learn in this Q+A with Petrus president, Andrew Robison, choosing the right donor database can make a world of difference in your fundraising capabilities.
(A laugh for your day: ...
By Rhen Hoehn, Director of Marketing
Every so often, it becomes necessary for a nonprofit to abandon their existing donor database system and move to a new one.
The existing system may be too complicated for staff to use, or perhaps it's not sophisticated enough to keep up with the...
