# Rob Burke

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Stewardship Is the New Acquisition: Building a Recurring Donor Base from Scratch | Jackie Jones

Most fundraisers are taught to chase: more grants, more new donors, more names on the list. Jackie Jones did the opposite and built something that lasts. In this episode of The Focused Fundraiser, Rob Burke talks with Dr. Jacqueline "Jackie" Jones, founder of the I SEE ME Foundation, which helps gi…

70 Million Meals, Zero Trucks: Move for Hunger's Fundraising Playbook

Move for Hunger has transported more than 70 million meals to food banks and pantries across the US and Canada, and they don't own a single truck. In this episode, Rob Burke sits down with Jennifer Bushinger-Ortiz, Director of Development at Move for Hunger, to unpack how you fund a mission that ru…

Donor-Centric Storytelling: How to Turn Your Mission Into Gifts | Mary Rockwell Thon

Most fundraisers who say they hate fundraising were never actually trained to do it. That was true for Mary Rockwell Thon, until she learned to talk about giving in a donor-centric way. Twenty years later, she's raised money for Girl Scouts, the Alzheimer's Association, child abuse prevention, and …

You Don't Have a Tech Problem, You Have a People Problem | Tim Lockie, The Human Stack

Fundraisers are at the mercy of their systems. And when the technology doesn't work, most nonprofit teams do the same thing: they buy more of it. Tim Lockie, founder of The Human Stack, says that almost never works, because the real problem lives in the human stack, not the tech stack. In this epis…

Jazz @ 4 - Modern Jazz - August 20

[00:00:00] 4:00 pm - Jazz @ 4 - Modern Jazz [00:00:08] with Iain Arnold [00:05:36] Clark Terry, Dave Glasser, Barry Harris [00:11:07] Peter Martin Trio - Ian In The House [00:17:33] Rob Burke - New Things and That [00:24:24] Dave Holland - Pass It On [00:31:49] Trombone Shorty' Andrews'; [0…

The Donor Data Hiding in Your Database (And How to Use It) | Colleen Mitchell

Colleen Mitchell talks about generosity in three different rooms. She runs annual giving at MidAmerica Nazarene University, pastors youth and families at her church, and teaches freshmen the rest of the week. Her takeaway from all three: relationship doesn't change just because the room does. In th…

The $50K Gift Hiding in Your Donor Database: Legacy Giving Done Right | Tess Conrad

Your most loyal $100-a-year donor might be sitting on a $3 million house and a $50,000 legacy gift your nonprofit will never see if you keep saying "planned giving." In this episode of The Focused Fundraiser, Rob Burke sits down with Tess Conrad, who builds planned giving programs for charities acr…

Mission Drift vs. Mission Evolution: How Nonprofits Lose Their Way | Sharmon Lebby

Most nonprofits chase funding before they've built anything strong enough to hold it. Sharmon Lebby has spent two decades watching mission-driven organizations either build infrastructure or run on passion until it breaks down, and she's done both herself. In this episode of The Focused Fundraiser,…

Jazz @ 4 - Bebop & beyond - September 28

[00:00:00] 4:00 pm - Jazz @ 4 - Bebop & beyond [00:10:06] Kenny Drew Trio [00:13:36] Sonny Stitt - The Spring [00:23:22] Wes Montgomery [00:27:33] Blue Mitchell - March On Selma [00:33:19] Horace Silver [00:41:50] Rob Burke - Maybe Tomorrow [00:46:14] Bobby Hutcherson [00:55:09] Jimmy Smit…

72 Teens Paid to Paint, Zero Tuition: Fundraising Alongside Earned Revenue | Laura Wetter

When your nonprofit earns revenue, some donors assume the sales cover everything. Laura Wetter, Development Director at Urban ArtWorks in Seattle, answers that by being specific about who pays for what. Urban ArtWorks gets paid to paint commissioned murals, and that money supports the artists and s…