Are you a
self-reflective fundraiser?
Self-reflection gives your fundraising career more meaning.
Fundraising can be a path not just to growing organizations, but to also growing yourself.
What other profession are you given the chance to grow your capacity for empathy, curiosity, deep listening, focusing on what’s most important, asking for what you need, checking your assumptions about other people, keeping the faith that things will work out, exploring your own relationship with money, remembering the difference between what you can control and what you can’t, and the power of gratitude?
Working in fundraising has been one of my most powerful personal development teachers.
I’m looking for fundraisers to share some of their thoughts and reflections on these themes with me.
I’ve had a few people ask me if I think growing fundraising is as easy as becoming more self-reflective, which is a really valid question. The short answer is no. A successful fundraising program takes so much more than fundraisers who are empathetic, self-reflective, and all the other things I mentioned above — it takes great leadership, engaged board members, effective programs and program evaluation in place, the proper investments in technology and systems and so much more. And yet, I still believe that there is one thing that all of us fundraisers do have ultimate control over — ourselves. And seeing our career in fundraising as a journey of personal growth. That’s what this project is all about. My consulting work tackles the systems and culture pieces!
Ready to talk about working together?
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