Welcome back to the Major Gifts Challenge! If you’re unfamiliar with the Challenge, check out the introductory video here. In the last few videos, you’ve learned about creating a donor pipeline and narrowing down your list of donors. But what if you don’t have a database full of donors to start from? No problem. Friendraising to … [Read more...]
Creating a Donor Pipeline: Zero in on Your BEST Major Gift Prospects
Welcome back to the Major Gifts Challenge! If you’re unfamiliar with the Challenge, check out the introductory video here. A list of potential donors, often called a portfolio or even a pipeline, helps you secure Major Gifts. Today you’ll learn how to create a profitable portfolio. In the last Major Gifts Challenge video, you learned … [Read more...]
Creating a Donor Pipeline: Building a List of Major Gift Prospects
Welcome back to the Major Gifts Challenge! If you’re unfamiliar with the Challenge, check out the introductory video here. A first step to achieve success in raising major gifts is identifying who you will ask. The last video discussed defining a major gift. Once defined, it’s clear you don’t need lots of major gift donors -- you can be … [Read more...]
How to Calculate the Amount of a Major Gift and 3 Reasons Why Size Matters
Congratulations on making the commitment to take the Major Gifts Challenge! You’re on your way to raising major gifts in a big way! If you’re unfamiliar with the Challenge, check out the introductory video here. Now that you’re ready, let’s get set, so you can get going. The first step to "get set" is all about determining what a major … [Read more...]
Fame and Fortune Await! Take the NEW Major Gifts Challenge
Fame and fortune can be yours -- raise major gifts for your cause and you can be both RICH and FAMOUS! Enjoy FAME... In less than a year be revered by your boss, board members and colleagues for securing huge gifts for your cause. Enjoy FORTUNE... In less than a year you can increase your organization’s annual fund by 10%, 20%, 100% or … [Read more...]
Top 3 Excuses and Reasons Board Members Won’t Help with Fundraising
This post is an oldie, but goodie, and it's always relevant since it's vitally important that board members fully participate and give. I've reworked and expanded this post to help you encourage your board members to fully participate and contribute to your cause. Whether I'm working with a client or speaking at a conference, the most … [Read more...]
4 Burning Questions About Raising Major Gifts Answered
Earlier this month, Lori Jacobwith at Ignited Fundraising hosted me on a webinar. At the end, there were dozens of questions and we answered as many as time allowed. Unfortunately, we were unable to get to a number of your questions about major gift fundraising, especially those that required more detailed answers. There were four questions … [Read more...]
7 Ways to Keep Your Nonprofit Development Team Intact
In my last video, I talked about the importance of development staff staying at their jobs and not job hopping. Today’s video is directed more at Executive Directors in an effort to help you keep your development staff members longer. Attention Executive Directors As you may know from experience, there’s no worse feeling than when a staff … [Read more...]
Avoid Nonprofit Job Hopping – 2 Strategies You Need to Know
You’ve likely heard the expression, fundraising is about relationships. You may also know that development director tenure can be very short. I’ve heard numbers as low as 14 or 16 months. I often think about what must be happening in nonprofits to make turnover in our sector so high -- especially in a sector that depends on relationships … [Read more...]
4 Anti-Procrastination Tactics to Get Back to Raising Major Gifts
Have you ever noticed we tend to work better on deadline? No matter how long we have for a project, most of us wait until the last minute (or close to it) to start. We seem to work better under the pressure of a deadline. Unfortunately, if you’re at a busy organization with lots of impending deadlines, this makes raising major gifts … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- …
- 54
- Next Page »