Hall Powell, Author at InsideCharity.org

March 10, 2020

Hall Powell Asks, “What’s So Special About Special Events?”

Hall Powell asks the question “What’s so special about special events?” Let’s hear what this veteran fundraiser has to say: In my more than 36 years as a fundraising professional I was privileged and blessed to serve three major healthcare institutions as the chief development officer for a period of twelve years, and an additional twenty–two years serving the nonprofit sector as a consultant to an array of organizations, helping them to build successful, comprehensive […]

April 22, 2020

Nonprofit Transformation During COVID-19 – Hall Powell

Nonprofit Transformation During COVID-19 is Hall Powell’s challenge to charitable executives to take a deep and inside look in organizational function during our time of national crisis. Here’s what Hall has to say: “It is the best of times and it is the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of […]

July 15, 2024

Meet Hall Powell…Major Gifts Fundraising Expert

“It is the best of times and it is the worst of times…” This opening sentence of Dickens’ classic, A Tale of Two Cities, could have been a prophesy of what would happen 431 years later: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the resulting political turmoil. The book is a story of sacrifice and redemption. There have been many great articles recently published that offer suggestions as to how to survive as a nonprofit organization in “times […]

September 7, 2024

Major Gifts Ramp-Up Controversy – The Emperor Has No Clothes

Major Gifts Ramp-Up Controversy – The Emperor Has No Clothes takes a look at charity’s brokenness and the solutions nonprofits must deploy to end the crazy-making. Major Gifts Ramp-Up (MGRU) is not nonprofit management 101. Rather, it is for seasoned c-suite executives who dare to confront this train wreck we call charity. It is a tightly facilitated 2-day session that uses an “emperor has no clothes” approach that celebrates participants’ convictions. MGRU relies on the […]