As we move into a new phase of a very challenging situation, DBD Group has created new products and retooled other products to help your organization move from reacting to the emergency to proactively emerging as a stronger organization, committed to fulfilling your mission in new ways. 

     

    Resources for Navigating Philanthropy and Non-profit Leadership During Uncertain Times

    Throughout the early days and weeks of the pandemic, we kept this page updated with resources and tools to help you lead and fund raise to meet the changing needs in your community.  We will continue to use this page to share these kinds of resources in the coming weeks and months. 

     

    CRISIS-SPECIFIC PODCASTS

    You can listen to these podcasts here or subscribe on Apple iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts.

     

    DBD's "Rethinking Financial Strategies" podcast (27 minutes) will help you to identify strategies for recovery and for strengthening your organization in the long run to prepare for future downturns.

     

    DBD's "Pivoting Your Case for Support" podcast (30 minutes) will show you how one organization created a new case for support and shared it with their donors, helping them to gain much-needed support during these uncertain times.

     

    DBD's "Major Gifts Conversations During a Crisis" podcast (26 minutes) is a conversation how your strong relationships with your donors will allow you to be both a giver and receiver. 

     

    DBD's "In the Tent" podcast (13 minutes) features Bruce Berglund and Jon Simons sharing some advice on who you should call today and how those conversations might unfold.

     

     

    WEBINARS

    Click below to view recent webinars and download the presentation. Upcoming webinar dates will be listed here, as well.

    DBD Webinars

     

    HELPFUL ARTICLES

    Want to Support Your Community's Recovery? Invest in Child Care  (Bridgespan Group)

    Fundraising in the Age of Coronavirus (HBR.org)

    Effects of COVID on learning loss (useful for a variety of youth-serving organizations)

    Giving Tuesday moves to May 5

    Maximizing Benefits from Federal Stimulus Package (updated 4/16) (Westfall Gold)

    How Nonprofits Can Utilize the New Federal Laws Dealing with COVID-19 (Nonprofit Quarterly)

    Teaching and Learning after COVID19 (Inside Higher Ed) - PS. you don't have to be an educational organization to find the questions they pose relevant for your organization

    Nonprofits Can Survive and Thrive (Crescendo)

    ACA's Coronavirus resource page (American Camp Association) 

     

    LEADING IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY

    Lessons from 2008

    What Does Love Look Like

    Moving Forward

     

    COMMUNICATING WITH DONORS 

    How to Use a Message Triangle

    Communicating in 2-D vs 3-D

    Connecting in Uncertain Times

     

    SAMPLE COMMUNICATIONS

    Click below to see our library of crisis communication samples. 

    Sample Communications
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    Inspiration You Crave. Resources You Need.

     

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    • "Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but the seed you plant."

      Robert Louis Stevenson

    • "Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have."

      Margaret Mead

    • "You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

      John Bunyan

    • "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

      John Quincy Adams

    • "No one has ever become poor by giving."

      Anne Frank

    • "It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves."

      Charles Dudley Warner

    • "It's every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."

      Robert F. Kennedy

    • "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

      Frederick Douglass

    • "Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle."

      Ken Hakuta

    • "Philanthropy is the mystical mingling of a joyous giver, an artful asker, and a grateful recipient."

      Douglas M. Lawson

    • "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

      Jim Rohn

    • "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

      Winston Churchill

    • "Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

      Henry David Thoreau

    • "The greatest problem with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death. Causes don't need workers as much as they need informed, dedicated and passionate advocates."

      Harold J. Seymour

    • "A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit."

      Greek Proverb

    • "Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."

      Gladyn Browyn Stern

    • "What a world this would be if we just built bridges instead of walls."

      Carlos Ramirez

    • "I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

      Maya Angelou

    • "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

      Mother Teresa

    • "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who sought and found out how to serve."

      Albert Schweitzer
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