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Jeff Schreifels

The Hidden Power of Mid-Level Fundraising: Unclogging Your Major Gift Pipeline

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The Hidden Power of Mid-Level Fundraising: Unclogging Your Major Gift Pipeline

While we spend a lot of time at Veritus talking about major gifts, we also know that if you want a healthy, thriving major gift program, you can’t ignore the rest of the pipeline—especially the mid-level. The truth is, most non-profits don’t have a real strategy for mid-level donors. And that’s a...

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Why a Mid-Level Fundraising Program Is the Key to Donor Respect

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Why a Mid-Level Fundraising Program Is the Key to Donor Respect

If you ask most CEOs or Executive Directors whether their organization is relationship-centered, they’ll usually say “yes.” But when you look closer, the reality often tells a different story. For...

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Mid-Level Changes the Relationship with Your Donors

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Mid-Level Changes the Relationship with Your Donors

Over the past several weeks I’ve been reviewing our client’s quarterly results. They are stunning, both for major gifts and mid-level. Today, however, I want to focus on mid-level because not only...

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The Missing Ingredients: Storytelling and Impact Reporting in Your Donor Relationships

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The Missing Ingredients: Storytelling and Impact Reporting in Your Donor Relationships

In my years of working with hundreds of non-profit organizations, I've noticed a pattern that continues to surprise me. When I ask development leaders about their donor stewardship strategies, they...

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Why Age Doesn't Matter in Major Gift Fundraising

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Why Age Doesn't Matter in Major Gift Fundraising

Let me be straight with you – I'm worried. I'm worried because I see too many good fundraisers getting distracted by the wrong things. And right at the top of that list is this obsession with donor...

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What Fundraising Game Are You Playing?

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What Fundraising Game Are You Playing?

One of my colleagues in the industry, Jason Lewis, has a phrase for the way that many non-profits approach fundraising: hands-off fundraising. It’s the idea that organizations treat fundraising like...

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How AI Is Influencing Major Gifts Fundraising

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How AI Is Influencing Major Gifts Fundraising

At the end of 2024, I recorded a podcast with my colleagues about the state of relational fundraising and the new strategies and tools we believe will be useful in the non-profit sector. One of the...

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White Men, Wake Up!

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White Men, Wake Up!

How did DEI go from a clarion call for change to an acronym no one can even utter for fear of retribution in such a short time? The answer: White men felt they were losing their power — and became...

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Strengthening Public Media: Turning Crisis into Opportunity

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Strengthening Public Media: Turning Crisis into Opportunity

The health of public media is facing another crisis. Over the last couple months, the new administration has challenged the integrity of—and threatened to defund—a valuable national infrastructure,...

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The Worst Day of My Career: Making It About the Money

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The Worst Day of My Career: Making It About the Money

“I am truly awesome!” That’s what I thought on the way back home from a donor meeting after landing the biggest individual contribution in my non-profit's history. I was ecstatic and couldn’t wait to...

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