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You’re Going to Be Okay: A Year-End Reminder
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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Are You Focused on the Right Donors?
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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Soaking Up Fall: 5 Donor Strategies You Don’t Want to Forget!
I know there are people who relish the summer. Loading it with expectations of all manner of possibilities. They get a sinking feeling as sunsets start earlier in the evening and the air begins to...
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How Are Your Major Gift Fundraising Results?
At Veritus, our team has a Slack channel called “Celebrations.” If I’m ever feeling down, I go in there and it revives my spirit. Why? Because in that celebration channel are phenomenal stories that...
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How to Deal with an Onion Donor
Don’t worry – Veritus hasn’t turned into a cooking blog! Today we’re talking about human onions. Everyone has onions in their lives. Those are the people with the tough outer shell, where it’s hard...
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The Four Steps to Better Donor Meetings Begin with You
It’s here! That donor meeting you’ve been prepping for where you will be asking your donor to increase their giving significantly. This is exhilarating and a bit terrifying all at the same time!
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Changing Your Major Gifts Program from Transactional to Relational
I was told about this experiment back in 1986, and it has stuck with me all these years. A teacher was given false information about the IQ and abilities of her classroom students. This changed her...
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Get Your Hands Dirty
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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How to Secure Board Members Who Really Work
Complaints about board members never seem to stop. To list: “I can’t get my board members to solicit donors.” “My board won’t come to events and talk to donors about what we do.”
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Fundraising Results on the Decline? It’s Time to Examine Your Paradigm
Today’s guest blog post was written by Diana Frazier, Senior Client Experience Leader at Veritus Group.
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What It Means to Win in Fundraising: Lessons from the Olympic Games
If I told you, “You’re a winner!” How would that sit with you? Would it make you feel uncomfortable? Like a fraud? Unsure if you deserved it? So many of us have a messy relationship with success and...
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How to Love Your Donors After You Leave
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...
