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Jeff Schreifels

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Do You Have These Year-End Fundraising Deadlines on Your Radar? You Should!

Every December, I’m reminded just how quickly the year can slip away. At Veritus, we spend this time alongside hundreds of fundraisers who are juggling donor meetings, gratitude calls, family obligations, internal deadlines, organization events, and more than a few distractions. And donors are...

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How to Set Goals for Your Donors

If you’ve been a reader of this blog for a bit, you know that we’re constantly telling you – as part of The Veritus Way of major gifts – that you need to set individual revenue goals for every one of...

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Best Practices for Donor Meetings

This blog was originally published in 2023.

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5 Self-Care Tips to Make More You-Time at Year-End

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5 Self-Care Tips to Make More You-Time at Year-End

This blog post was originally published in 2022 One thing is certain: the year-end push is exhausting. You’ve been busy preparing donor offers, meeting with donors, writing thank-you notes, making...

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What Are You Grateful For This Year?

As many of us in the U.S. prepare to pull up a chair at the Thanksgiving table—and even if you’re reading this from somewhere far beyond our borders—I want to take a moment to pause with you. This...

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Three Meaningful Ways to Thank Your Donors

Many of us in the U.S. are getting ready to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday this week. But gratitude is a year-long practice, not an annual feast. Studies have shown that practicing gratitude...

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How to Talk to Your Donors About 2026 Tax Changes

There are some significant shifts coming to charitable giving rules, but many donors haven’t heard a thing about them. Beginning with the 2026 tax year, new deduction limits and opportunities will...

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Creative Ways to Stand Out at Year-End

This season, our inboxes and mailboxes fill up fast. There are sales messages, holiday invitations, and of course, a flood of year-end fundraising appeals. And yet, some messages still manage to...

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How Are You Celebrating?

One of the things I love about our team at Veritus is that we like to celebrate a lot. In fact, we have a Slack channel that is called “Celebrations,” and that channel is exclusively set aside for...

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What No One Tells You About Building Donor Relationships

How are you doing building relationships with your donors? It’s not easy, is it? Building meaningful relationships with major donors isn’t something you can completely learn from a manual or a...

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