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Accordant team members average more than 25 years of health care leadership experience and are sought after conference speakers and thought leaders.

Why a Comprehensive Campaign Should be in Your Future

John Donovan

4 min

Why a Comprehensive Campaign Should be in Your Future

Historically, fundraising campaigns were to support a periodic, capital-intensive organizational priority. It was often run as a parallel...

Is Your Board Bored? Defining Board Member Roles

Cindy Reynolds

4 min

Is Your Board Bored? Defining Board Member Roles

When recruiting and working with a volunteer board, whether a formal foundation board of trustees or an informal philanthropy council,...

How Leaders Can Manage Stress to Create a Healthy Office Culture

Lori Counts

3 min

How Leaders Can Manage Stress to Create a Healthy Office Culture

The global pandemic brought the topic of mental health and stress into the national spotlight, where we are finally recognizing the need...

Positive Cultures Must Start with Gratitude

Michelle Rovang

3 min

Positive Cultures Must Start with Gratitude

Culture. It is referred to in a number of ways and situations. Merriam-Webster defines culture as the characteristic features of an...

Planned Giving –An Immediate Impact Today

James Gold

3 min

Planned Giving –An Immediate Impact Today

“If not now, when?” In my daily work with health care organizations, I frequently hear the following statements from philanthropy...

Javin Peterson

4 min

The Ideal Community Partner - Part 2

Part 2 Community partnerships bring resilience to our communities. Partnerships between our health organizations and organizations whose...

People or Process: Identifying the True Problem

Jessica Carswell

4 min

People or Process: Identifying the True Problem

Fund development is a relationship business. While there is plenty of data and strategy involved in philanthropy, the critical work...

Hit the Reset Button for Mid-Year Goal Setting

Jessica Carswell

3 min

Hit the Reset Button for Mid-Year Goal Setting

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard At the start of the new year, did you declare...

Engaging with our Future: Connect with Prosperous Millennials on their Terms

Andrew Watt

3 min

Engaging with our Future: Connect with Prosperous Millennials on their Terms

I imagine you are already tired of the COVID-response pieces suggesting ways to move past the effects of the pandemic. This is not just...

Aligning Visit Metrics with Professional Ethics

Betsy Chapin Taylor

3 min

Aligning Visit Metrics with Professional Ethics

Visit metrics have always been a valuable way for philanthropy executives to measure and manage their work. There continues to be...

Betsy Chapin Taylor

4 min

Emerging Trends and Issues

There has been no industry impacted like health care over the last two years. As health philanthropy leaders, we exist in the confluence...

Philanthropy Officers: Supporting and Securing these Forgotten Treasures

Heather Wiley Starankovic

4 min

Philanthropy Officers: Supporting and Securing these Forgotten Treasures

Most health care philanthropy organizations are in a constant state of seeking funds for the betterment of their organizations and...

Create Beautiful Philanthropy Stories—Simply

Michael Beall

4 min

Create Beautiful Philanthropy Stories—Simply

Do you ever struggle when describing what you do for work? I have two children, ages eight and nine, who tell their friends, “My dad’s...

Michael Beall

3 min

Your New Health Philanthropy Brand

If marketing guru Marty Neumeier is right about branding being nothing more than “a person’s gut feeling about your organization,” or as...

Michelle Boggs

4 min

Building Your Personal Brand on a Business Networking Platform

The LinkedInTM business networking platform has quickly become the social platform for professionals seeking to network and develop...

A Fresh Look at Our Clinician Ally Relationships

Erin Stitzel

5 min

A Fresh Look at Our Clinician Ally Relationships

In October 2010, the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) published the article “Major Gift Officers: A Valuable Commodity.” It...

Grand Stewards of Trust in Health Care: Promoting Credibility

Javin Peterson

5 min

Grand Stewards of Trust in Health Care: Promoting Credibility

I recently served in the 89th Airlift Wing, an Air Force unit that supports the President of the United States and is most known for...

Amy Dorrill

4 min

Gratitude 2020

We all have our own highs and lows of 2020. I have lost someone dear to me. I have had days where I have felt alone, and I have been...

Just a Spoonful of Gratitude Helps the Culture Improve

Pamela Ronka Maroulius, CFRE

3 min

Just a Spoonful of Gratitude Helps the Culture Improve

“Not another day! Not another day!” I recall these lines from a TV commercial (but ironically, I don’t recall the product) where a parrot...

Betsy Chapin Taylor

4 min

It’s Time to Rethink Corporate Giving

Corporate giving to health care organizations has been largely concentrated on sponsorships— most of which have been directed toward...

The Accordant Team has published a number of books to advance the efforts of health care philanthropy and help development leaders everywhere.

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Accordant is honored to collaborate with American Hospital Association Trustee Services to provide issue papers, templates and webinars to support the involvement of healthcare trustees and foundation board members in advancing philanthropy. These resources can also be found on the AHA Trustee website .

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