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Fundraising & Storytelling: Why You Have to Tell Stories
Raising money for your mission involves sharing with potential donors the problem or injustice that you are trying to solve. Just sharing...
David Oaks
Feb 12, 20242 min read
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Cold & Heartless: A Naked Contribution Statement
Each year as I receive contribution statements from the charities that I supported in the previous year, I am always surprised. As I open...
David Oaks
Jan 4, 20242 min read
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Dec 30 & 31: THE FISH ARE BITING!
After Christmas, we enter a strange and kind of nice time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. It’s still part of the holiday season,...
David Oaks
Dec 30, 20233 min read
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Beyonce, the Big-Mo & Fundraising
Listen to podcast In December 2013, with no advertising and a single photo on Instagram, Beyoncé released her fifth album on iTunes. What...
David Oaks
Dec 6, 20234 min read
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"You" & All Its Variations: Flytraps to Your Readers
I recently stepped off the plane in Kampala, Uganda and was struck by the big "Because of You" posters. They were from the Ugandan...
David Oaks
Dec 4, 20231 min read
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Great Fundraising ALWAYS Starts With Storytelling
Once, in a bustling dormitory of Harvard University, a brilliant yet somewhat introverted young man has a vision. He dreams of a world...
David Oaks
Nov 5, 20232 min read
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What Fundraisers Can Learn From A Desantis Email
As I was emptying my junk email file, an email from the Ron Desantis campaign caught my eye.
David Oaks
Sep 30, 20233 min read
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Destroyed Arrows, Halfheartedness & Fundraising
Jewish storytellers tell about one of their kings who comes to visit one of their prophets. The prophet instructs the king to take some...
David Oaks
Sep 19, 20233 min read
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Ballooning Priest’s Fundraising Event Kills Him
To fund a spiritual rest area for truck drivers, Father Adelir Antônio de Carli tied himself to over 1,000 helium-filled party balloons....
David Oaks
Sep 19, 20235 min read
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Death Is Cheap
When visionaries don't understand their role in bringing hope to the world, they hate fundraising. I have heard visionaries lament the...
David Oaks
Apr 11, 20233 min read
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Want to learn something: Teach it!
At some time in the next year, I intend to write another book. I want to help fundraisers in the faith community to understand the role...
David Oaks
Apr 11, 20233 min read
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