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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...
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10 Steps to Creating Compelling Donor Offers
The main reason a donor doesn’t give to you is because you haven’t given the donor a compelling offer that matches what they care about.
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19 Fundraising Tips to Make Summer Successful!
May is already in full swing, and summer will soon be officially upon us. I spent 8 years as a development director for two non-profits in Philadelphia earlier in my career, and I loved summer....
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Are Donors Even Reading Your Emails? 13 Pro Tips to Help You Write Better Emails
Recently on our team Slack channel, our coaches shared that we send a lot of these tips to our clients about how to write an effective email, so I thought it would be a great resource to share them...
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Do You Need an Attitude Adjustment?
No one wants to hear that they need an attitude adjustment! But if we’re honest, don’t we all need one on occasion? There is so much going on in our lives and happening in the world, and we can all...
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How Should You Spend Your Fundraising Budget? (#5 of 6)
This blog post is the fifth in a series of six titled, “The House Your Donor Lives In.”
