Warm up your iPod, because a great new podcast is moving into the neighborhood.
It's called Fundraising Is Beautiful, and if you like this blog, I think you'll like the podcast too.
I'm producing it with friend and former colleague Steven Screen of ÜberDirect. Steven and I are pretty much extreme fundraising geeks. The way software geeks live in sheer chatterbox awe of the elegance of code, we admire the power, grace, and transcendence of fundraising.
We don't see fundraising as a necessary evil. And it's not an unwanted sidekick of good deeds. Fundraising is itself a great good deed that helps make people kinder, wiser, more centered, and more joyful than they are if they don't give to charity. And that's what fundraising does before one cent goes to the good causes that help change the world.
If you haven't yet discovered the joy of podcasts, this would be a good time to start. They provide an excellent way to put learning and inspiration into those odd moments of the day (when you're on the bus, driving, walking, exercising, etc.) that can become much more valuable to you.
We'll be podcasting once a week (on Wednesdays) starting, well, soon. Some time in March. You'll find it here at the Donor Power Blog and at its own website.
I hope Fundraising Is Beautiful will inspire you to love what you do and succeed at it better than ever.
I've been waiting for something like this. As an online fundraiser, I applaud all the work you're doing. Thanks for offering me extra tools (for free) to "...do my job right in the new age of fundraising".
Posted by: Sandy Losik | 22 February 2008 at 13:27
I very much look forward to the podcast. I love to listen them and find that I do when they are no more than eight minutes long. Just thought I'd share that. Good luck with it.
Posted by: Niels Teunis | 21 February 2008 at 12:01