Insights from twenty years of work

Insights on fundraising and nonprofit leadership.

  • In January 2025, I built myself a little website on WordPress.com. It worked; it was better than nothing, and I kept adding little things to it over the course of the year. But it was a…

  • Strategy and fundraising go together, like the chicken and the egg. Or dark and light. You can’t really have one without the other. That’s what I mean by a convergent approach. To implement any strategy over…

  • My first anniversary

    One year ago, I started Robin Mohr & Associates LLC! Literally, I sent my first invoice on January 10, 2025. I am forever grateful to Melinda Wenner Bradley and the board of Faith & Play Stories,…

  • Chief Strategy Officer

    In September, I started a new course at the Wharton School of Business Executive Education program. It’s a Chief Strategy Officer certificate program.  I’m now about half way through the course and I am really enjoying…

  • Originally posted on July 25th, 2019, at Robin’s blog, What Canst Thou Say?  I remembered this morning why I come to yearly meeting. 20 years ago, I went to Pacific Yearly Meeting for the first time…

  • Originally posted on December 30th, 2013, at Robin’s blog, What Canst Thou Say?  I love opportunities to get together informally with Friends – this was the original basis of the convergent Friends dinner parties I organized…

  • Originally posted on April 30th, 2013, at Robin’s blog, What Canst Thou Say?  This essay also appears as the Foreword in An Inner Strength: Quakers and Leadership, edited by Kathy Hyzy, published by Western Friend.  Who’s…

  • Bivocational ministry

    Originally posted on September 17th, 2012, at Robin’s blog, What Canst Thou Say?  Robin expanded further on this topic in her article “In Celebration of Bivocational Ministry” for Friends Journal in February of 2014. So have…

  • Originally posted on September 5th, 2011, at Robin’s blog, What Canst Thou Say?  New acquaintance: So what do you actually do in your job? Me: That’s a good question.  It’s funny. I think it’s a good…

  • On My Way

    Originally posted on April 30th, 2013, at Robin’s blog, What Canst Thou Say?  I am on my way today to my first duties as the next Executive Secretary for FWCC Section of the Americas. I don’t…


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