By Mary Walker, Petrus Blog Contributor

I love the late winter —the time when football season isn’t quite over, and basketball season is ramping up. There are WAY MORE games on TV than are good for me to watch! 

On any team, players have “basic” responsibilities, but are also specialists. Eac...

By Mary Walker, Petrus Blog Contributor

Plans fail when there is no counsel, but they succeed when advisors are many.  (Proverbs 15:22)

It’s a tough world out there, and our ministries need help to survive and grow. Questions arise. Which path should you pursue? How can you get from where ...

By Chris Scroggin, Petrus Consultant

Herb Brooks was the 1980 Olympic Ice Hockey coach that, against all odds, beat the Russian National team and then went on to win the gold medal. 

It really was a “David vs. Goliath” tale that no one expected. 

Herb had taken a bunch of college amateurs...

By Matt Bond, Director of Development at St. John's Catholic Student Center at Oklahoma State University

As many people in our field, I fell into the profession of development by happenstance. A great priest walked into a classroom of my former student center where my sister-in-law just happ...

By Andrew N. Robison, Owner & President of Petrus

Have you ever thought about the similarities between babies and fundraising? Surely you have, right? Okay...maybe its just me, but let's play this out and see where it goes...

Two and a half weeks ago, my wife gave birth to our fourth chil...

By Josh Whelan, Petrus Vice President and Senior Consultant 

In 2000, I went to the University of Mississippi with the career goal of either becoming a psychologist or a lawyer.

My father is a psychologist, and like him, I want to help people. He is a person I greatly admire, and I often se...

New Director of Client Services to serve growing market for parish, diocesan, and ministry consulting 

College Station, TX - September 1, 2020 - Petrus Development announces the promotion of Tara Doyon as Director of Client Services and Senior Consultant. Tara previously served as a general consu...

108 Hours...

No, this isn’t an intro to how I got stuck hiking in a Utah canyon, rather, it’s about Petrus that went from 12 hours of digital content to 108 hours’ worth of Zoom calls in 3.5 months because of a worldwide pandemic!

So what else could you do in 108 hours??

• Drive coast to coast 2.
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Darin Paine, PhD, presented at the Petrus Fundraising Virtual Summit 2020

We are continuing to move forward through the uncertainty surrounding us. And as we do, we can be encouraged by our community that continues to learn from, support and lean on one another.

The following is an addendum...