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You have roughly 5-6 weeks left in the year to have face-to-face conversations with your donors and to ask for gifts. I say that because all of your donor meetings really should be wrapped up by December 15th as it becomes way too busy for people to meet with you during the holidays.
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If you are a frontline fundraiser, you need a coach. It’s doesn’t matter if you are brand new to the profession or you have over 20 years of experience. I have seen first-hand, over and over again,...
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If your non-profit has done more than two capital campaigns in its history, it’s most likely because you don’t have a strong major gift program and/or you’re using it as a crutch not to develop...
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No matter how long you’ve been following Veritus Group, you’ve probably heard us encourage you to adopt “The Veritus Way” of major gift fundraising. But what exactly does that mean?
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Part 2 in a 3-Part Series for Small Non-Profit Organizations: How Do You Get Started in Major Gifts? In my last blog post, I outlined three areas you need to address before starting a major gift...
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One of the privileges I have in my work is that I get to review every donor assessment that we do. Over the last 15 years, I’ve reviewed well over a 1,000 of them. I love reviewing them because it...
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Okay, you’re in it. This is probably the most stressful time of the year with your work. Well, I guess if you add on all the holidays and all that goes with it, it feels like piling on.
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Many years ago, I was working with an MGO to help create her donor portfolio. We were going through a process called the “gut check” to separate which donors were actually qualified from those that...
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You probably know how large companies recruit junior executives fresh from a college MBA program. The outsider’s perception is that management immediately gives all new MBAs a beautiful office,...
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Sometime in the next several years, most major gift officers, like you, will leave your non-profit to work for someone else. In fact, today you and your colleagues are moving from one non-profit to...
