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...]
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...]
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...]
How Much Should a Major Gift Officer Be Expected to Raise?
Today’s question comes from Donna, who writes: We’re considering hiring a major gift officer. How much should they be expected to raise in the first year? And when can we expect to see a return on our investment? I’m delighted you’re considering hiring a major gift officer. Hiring major gift officers and raising major gifts at all types … [Read more...]
6 Real-World Questions and Answers about Raising Major Gifts
Before we dive into these real-world questions and answers about raising major gifts, I have something to say about the recent massacre in Orlando. A Message to my Readers One of the reasons I got into the nonprofit sector is because I care about people. I care about human rights and social justice. We have lived with mass shootings … [Read more...]
What’s Stopping You from Raising Major Gifts? Part 5: Lack of Training
What’s Stopping You from Raising Major Gifts? Part 5 of 5: Lack of Training In this final installment of What's Stopping You from Raising Major Gifts? we're going to address what's perhaps the greatest obstacle of them all. The good news is that if you overcome this one obstacle to raising major gifts -- a lack of formal training, you'll … [Read more...]
What’s Stopping You from Raising Major Gifts? Part 4: No Time
What’s Stopping You from Raising Major Gifts? Part 4 of 5: No Time It’s true that major gift fundraising is a huge time commitment... and the payoff might be months or years away. With grant deadlines looming and your gala coming up, it’s a real challenge to find time to raise major gifts. However, if you truly want to raise major … [Read more...]
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