Author: Viken Mikaelian

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Major Gifts
Viken Mikaelian

Six Strategies to Prevent Job Burnout

Does your life feel unbalanced? Are you tired or exhausted most of the time? Do you feel like work consumes you? You may be experiencing job burnout. Here are some important ways to prevent job burnout and care for yourself and your career.

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Major Gifts
Viken Mikaelian

Preparing for a High Profile Major Gifts Job Interview

With a high profile job interview coming up, it’s important to practice some effective, job-winning strategies that can help you outshine your competition. Use these tips and strategies to prepare for – and win – the job of your dreams.

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Mission-Positioning
Effective fundraising
Viken Mikaelian

Mission Positioning During Tough Times

Figuring out your mission positioning can be tough during down markets and time of economic uncertainty. Cutting marketing activity right now is risky, contrary to what you might think. You’ll save on the short term, but lose in the long-term.

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Staying Productive
Covid Pandemic
Viken Mikaelian

Staying Productive Working From Home

If you once performed like an expert gymnast nailing every routine, you might have found that you’ve become a bit wobbly since you started working at home. Sure, there have been advantages—less time commuting, fewer office interruptions. But it can also be hard staying productive. Here’s how to score a perfect 10, every time.

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Cryptocurrency
Major Gifts
Viken Mikaelian

The Crypto Revolution is Here. Is Your Nonprofit Ready?

What’s crypto? A massive untapped opportunity for your nonprofit. And Planned Giving has an exclusive scoop on a risk-free gifting vehicle potential that could launch your organization into the stratosphere. Learn more about how to use cryptocurrency at your nonprofit!

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planned giving appeal letter
Stewardship and Relationships
Viken Mikaelian

The Planned Giving Appeal Letter

The planned giving world is inundated with so much legalese and technical jargon, a simple planned giving appeal letter usually reads like a privacy statement sent out by a credit card company. It’s enough to send a corporate lawyer straight to sleep — and those are the folks who write privacy statements! Appeal to emotion.

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planned gift program
Uncategorized
Viken Mikaelian

Too Much Donor Information

Has something like this ever happened to you? You’re at a development conference, sitting at a table with a stranger. You introduce yourself … and the person takes your friendliness as an invitation to go all in. Next thing you know, they’re telling you about a recent operation (including all the gory details) and finish it off by yanking up their shirt for a grand reveal of a very large incision scar. The same thing can happen when a nonprofit tries to track down donor information – you don’t need to know every little thing! Here’s how to find the sweet spot!

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death by overwork
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Viken Mikaelian

Death by Overwork

We’ve all known someone who collected stuff in his garage. Always parked his car outside because he had no space. Eventually, he built a second garage for his car. Of course, over time he filled the second garage with more “junk,” too. Work can be like that– you can fill your days with so much busywork that you need to add another hour, then another hour… and so on and so on, until your days are gone!

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Giving
Viken Mikaelian

Cryptocurrency: The Next Gifting Frontier

Ethereum. Doegecoin. Ripple. Litecoin. Stellar. Bitcoin. Unless you’re familiar with cryptocurrency, those names probably look like something straight out of a science fiction story. But it’s no fiction: Cryptocurrency presents a huge—and largely untapped—opportunity for nonprofits.

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