2023 - Scandiuzzi Krebs

As we head into the new year, we share some thoughts on the bright future ahead, and celebrate all who made Doors Open possible.

By finding and maintaining the right mindset, you can cultivate authentic relationships that support your work long-term—love money.

Using a process of learning and unlearning, we can shift our thinking around youths in order to more effectively center them in our mission.

Fostering participation and stewardship in our communities—especially in youths is how we build a strong cultural legacy and shared history.

Setting the tone and expectations for the approach to your budget allows your process to be a source of collaboration rather than conflict.

Budgeting shouldn’t be daunting or informed by scarcity, but rather understood as a reflection of your collective goals, successes and hopes.

Organizing by a Cycle creates predictable events that your community comes to anticipate, and keeps your donors seeing the impact of your org.

When you build and sustain a healthy Web, you don’t have to “warm people up” before you make an ask, your donors will always be hot.

All the fundamentals of fundraising theory can be explained in three shapes: the spiral, the web, and the cycle. Here’s what you need to know: