Here are 10 things that you should avoid doing today in developing a fund-raising strategy that will work:

1. Don’t manipulate your donors with guilt or pity
2. Don’t stretch the truth
3. Don’t forget to communicate
4. Don’t forget to be thankful!
5. Don’t build “YOUR” Kingdom
6. Don’t ignore your donors as “friends”
7. Don’t assume that they know what’s going on
8. Don’t do all of the talking
9. Don’t forget to be generous
10. Don’t forget that it’s ALL His!

Russ/2012