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...]
3 Ways to Communicate Social Return on Investment to Donors
Donors make a social investment to fund your cause. They have a stake in the outcome. Today I want to talk to you about showing donors the return on their investment. In last week’s video, I talked about expressing gratitude and donor love. Today I want to take that sentiment to the next level. It’s wonderful to tell donors how much you … [Read more...]
Love Letters and Dining Out: 2 Uncommon Ways to Appreciate Your Donors
Love is in the air! With Valentine’s Day right in the middle of the month, love swirls all around us in February. As your fundraising partner, I’m always looking at ways the culture can help you be more successful. One thing for sure, you love your donors. Valentine’s Day is a good time to tell them you love them. It’s also a good time … [Read more...]
5 Remarkable Ways to Continue Your Fundraising Education
The New Year is only a few weeks old and already millions of New Year’s resolutions have been forgotten. Resolutions to lose weight have fallen by the wayside. Lots of new gym memberships haven’t even produced a brisk walk from the car to the gym. I hope you make New Year’s Commitments instead. In a recent video, I showed how … [Read more...]
Overwhelmed? Here Are 2 Tips to Master Major Gifts
Today, I’m going to attempt to read your mind... You don’t have enough time to raise major gifts. You don’t know how to get started raising major gifts. You don’t have anyone to guide you through the process of raising major gifts week by week, month by month, and year by year – someone who’s always there to answer your questions and … [Read more...]
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