Tim Boyd

You're - You're - You're - I used the wrong one in the email! :) I’m going to give you a fundraising opinion that may seem a little strange coming from a comedian: please take the donation cards off the tables. Actually, if I’m coming to your banquet, I’d love for you to hide them. Put them in a closet. Lock the closet. Give the key to somebody you trust. Whatever you have to do, just don’t let people start deciding how much they’re going to give before you’ve actually made the case for...

There are a lot of people in the comedy world who have made me laugh. There are considerably fewer who have made me a better fundraiser. And there are even fewer who have become a genuine friend. Mike Williams somehow managed to check all three boxes for me. Mike is one of my comedy-fundraising mentors. We have taught fundraising together, talked about banquets, laughed about the ridiculous things that happen when you put comedians and fundraising in the same room, and spent plenty of time...

I’ve been to a lot of fundraising banquets. And I mean a lot. I’ve sat through hundreds of Executive Director speeches over the years. I’ve heard the great ones, the painful ones, the ones that went way too long, and the ones where I found myself thinking, “I have absolutely no idea what this organization actually does.” So when I hear an Executive Director give a speech that makes me think, “That is how you do it,” I pay attention. Recently, I heard SuNell from Compassionate Care Pregnancy...