When you’re working with a lean budget and you FINALLY have the funding/approval to hire development support, it is incredibly tempting to just get “somebody” in the role. You are eager to free yourself up for more strategic development work by adding to your team,

Loree Lipstein

July 24, 2019

Strategic plans and development plans *have* to be linked. They need to have a lot of overlapping DNA, embody the same values, and be in constant communication with one another.

Thread: How does Third Plateau help nonprofits become more strategic in their work?

Loree Lipstein

April 30, 2019

Successful fundraising is often described as part-art, part-science. For most fundraisers I know (myself included), the art-part of fundraising is the more familiar and natural of this balance. It’s second-nature to read in between the lines of a text, to listen for what a donor leaves unsaid as much as what is directly stated,

Loree Lipstein

April 19, 2019

Being a member of the Thread Strategies team is one of my proudest accomplishments. The experience of defining our core values as a firm was one example of how working with Thread has been so fulfilling. Our final set of core values are meaningful to each of us individually and they express what’s at the heart of our work with our partners.

Loree Lipstein

February 18, 2019

Hire well! No, really, hire well! Create a team of people who all think very differently about the process to accomplish the goal but believe in the goal.

Thread: What process did Greater DC Diaper Bank use to define its values?

Loree Lipstein

February 16, 2019

One of the core components of good fundraising and development for any nonprofit is stewardship. It is the key to not just retention, but growth – something all nonprofits aspire to.

According to the 2018 Fundraising Effectiveness Project,

Loree Lipstein

October 29, 2018

“I see myself as a matchmaker – connecting passionate and justice-seeking Person A with impactful, world-changing Organization B”

Thread: Why did you choose development/fundraising as your profession?

Emily: Even while completing my degrees in social work,

Loree Lipstein

October 25, 2018

This spring, I had the pleasure of joining a few of my colleagues and representing the Thread team at two conferences: The Nonprofit Technology Conference and the Classy Collaborative. Even though I’ve been going to fundraising conferences for years,

Loree Lipstein

July 10, 2018

“When you mentor someone, you take their story home with you. It becomes part of your story. It changes you and the way you see the world around you.”

Thread: Your role at MentorPrize is your first in the nonprofit sector – why did you choose to make the transition from the corporate world at this point in your career?

Loree Lipstein

July 6, 2018

It’s Valentine’s Day 2018 and my heart is breaking. I’m at my computer, it’s the early afternoon and my social media feeds begins to flood with the horrible news: another school shooting and mass murder, this time at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSD) in Parkland,

Loree Lipstein

April 10, 2018