Exhale is celebrating a special anniversary. Please donate today.

Exhale, the organization I co-founded and have been leading for over 10-years is a celebrating a very special anniversary.  Five-years ago we expanded our Bay-Area post-abortion talkline into a national, multilingual service that is available everyday.  Learn more about what we’ve been doing over the last five-years on Exhale’s blog and please consider making a [...]

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My Presentation on “Challenges to Major Donor Fundraising” with the Development Executives Roundtable

I was honored to be invited by the Development Executives Roundtable to share Exhale’s experiences with major donor fundraising on April 20, 2010. In this edited video, I share the challenges that Exhale faces and what it looks like when we do major donor fundraising right. I was honored to receive the following feedback: “I [...]

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Vote for Exhale & Help Us Win a New Website

A woman who has had an abortion and who goes online in search of support and connection will undoubtedly find everything that is wrong with the abortion debate in this country. Shame, stigma, anger, violence, and judgment around abortion are the status quo online. Imagine if instead each woman found what she really needs: respect [...]

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Exhale Honors Volunteer Jan with 2nd Annual Rachel Falls Compassion Award

In 2008, Exhale and our community lost a very dear friend and ally. Rachel Falls, the Hotline Director at the National Abortion Federation (NAF), passed away after a long battle with brain cancer. Rachel was many wonderful things to many people. At Exhale, she will always be remembered as one of the first people to [...]

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Fundraising Day 2009: Adventures in New Media!

We had a very, very packed room at our workshop “Adventures in New Media” at Fundraising Day today. People standing in the back, sitting on the floor and lots of really great questions about how you measure the impact of social media strategies on fundraising. I learned a lot from the panelists, Jennifer Berger, Executive [...]

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Adventures in New Media at Fundraising Day 2009

I am stoked for tomorrow! I will be moderating a panel called “Lessons Learned: Adventures in New Media” tomorrow at AFP’s Golden Gate Chapters day-long conference called Fundraising Day. I have been involved, on and off, with this conference for many years and this year was a member of the Program Committee. My Exhale colleague, [...]

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The Future of Money-Raising

http://www.nten.org/blog/2008/11/20/how-will-your-nonprofit-raise-money-in-2012 How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012? Peter Deitz, Social Actions With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, “How will my nonprofit raise money next year?” I suspect fewer fundraisers are asking themselves, “How will my nonprofit raise the money it [...]

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