Posts by Barry Spencer

This Is Good for Your Soul If I could get a dollar for every New Year’s resolution that I didn’t follow through on, I’d be… Have you said that before?…

Who’s Responsible Anyway? The power of giving is easily overlooked, and it is needed more today than ever. How does giving back promote personal responsibility? Compassion for others is at…

Since 1995, the Donor Motivation Program has been serving development professionals around North America. It all began with one seasoned development professional, Jack Miller, who wanted to grow planned giving…

Do You Know Their Names? One of our other Donor Motivation Professionals shared this question: “Do you know the first name of your great grandparents?” “Wow,” I thought when he…

Lifeprints You’ve heard it said, “You can’t take it with you. There are no U-Haul’s behind hearses.” Yet, we forget the incredible legacy we can leave. We call them lifeprints.…

The Big Charity Myth Who did better at preserving their wealth: the American industrialist – who became known as the father of modern American shipbuilding, founding Kaiser Shipyard, which built…

Give This Blessing to Your Donors Start the New Year by… Thanking donors for their generosity in 2025 and helping them find their own reasons to give again, and give…

New Year, New Way to Set Goals Instead of New Year resolutions, set personal goals. Set goals around the behaviors and mindsets you can control, that can lead you to…

Inoculate Them… Against Affluenza When our founder, Scott Keffer, spoke to a small group of very successful business owners who belonged to the Young President’s Organization (YPO), they asked him…

The track sprinter doesn’t sprint continuously. The tennis match doesn’t continue on from one point to the next without giving the players a moment to catch their breath. Football has…