by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Nov 23, 2016 | Culture, Employee Retention, Organization, Performance Evaluation | Development Directors, Donor-Centered, Leadership, Mission, Non-Profits, Uncategorized
First in the series Six Reasons Your MGO Will Leave Your Organization It’s a sad reality: MGOs don’t stay very long in most organizations. In fact, the average length of their stay is 2½ years, with many MGOs leaving sooner than that. That’s why Jeff and I are going...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Nov 21, 2016 | Focus, Growth, Portfolios, Tiering | Caseloads, Discipline, Uncategorized
#5 in the series How to Manage Your Portfolio Effectively I think one of the toughest things for us at Veritus Group, when we work with non-profit managers or leaders, is their expectation that major gift income will just magically grow overnight. The idea that...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Nov 18, 2016 | Evaluation, Focus, Portfolios, Reporting Back, Tiering | Caseloads, Discipline, Strategic Plans, Uncategorized
#4 in the series How to Manage Your Portfolio Effectively If you’ve been reading along with this current series on tiering your donors, you know that we’ve now gone over what to do with A and B Tier donors. These two tiers, while comprising less than half, maybe just...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Nov 16, 2016 | Focus, Reporting Back, Thanking, Tiering | Caseloads, Major Gifts, Moves Management, Strategic Plans, Uncategorized
#3 in the series How to Manage Your Portfolio Effectively B-level donors are the middle child of major gift portfolios everywhere. In many cases that I’ve come across in working with MGOs, they really are treated this way. Of course there is a lot of emphasis on Tier...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Nov 14, 2016 | Cultivation, High Net Worth, Stewardship | Donor-Centered, Impact, Moves Management, Strategic Plans, Uncategorized
How to Effectively Manage Your Portfolio, Part 2 Have you been treating all of your donors the same? Before I start working with an MGO to help her put a structure to her caseload, I always ask her to tell me how she currently works with her portfolio, and to tell me...