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* Giveaway Alert *

For those who missed our FB post, ZIM is giving away four pairs of Frozen tickets! The performance is September 5th at 7:30pm at the...

Hiring Time: How to make sure you have the right candidate

Finding the Right Person In light of our recent blog series on finding development staff – and the fact that EVERYONE seems to be looking...

Time for a little "Summer Cleaning"

Summer Cleaning For many organizations, summer is a relative downtime compared to the rest of the year. This makes it a great time to do...

Development Staff: An Endangered Species Pt. 5

How to find a great development director? Throughout this blog series, I have discussed the decline of the Development Director, which...

Development Staff: An Endangered Species Pt. 4

How can nonprofits prevent the extinction of good Development Directors? In our last blog, I explained that the decline of the...

Development Staff: An Endangered Species Pt. 3

How the disappearance of qualified Development Directors impacts the fundraising ecosystem In our last blog, I discussed how the decline...

Development Staff: An Endangered Species Pt. 2

Where have all the good Development Directors gone? In our last blog, I discussed how Development Directors started to leave the...

Development Staff: An Endangered Species Pt. 1

The history of fundraising and development staffing After 22 years of working in the nonprofit sector, I have seen my fair share of...

Welcome to ZIM Consulting's Blog

As part of ZIM Consulting's new website, we're excited to have an expanded and more prominent blogging component, in which we'll discuss...