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I Don’t Like the Term “Moves Management”
I know that at one point, the term “Moves Management” was helpful. It was a way to understand the stages around a relationship with a major donor (identification, cultivation, solicitation,...
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Do You Have What It Takes to Get a Transformational Gift?
Right now, in this moment, you have donors in your caseload who could give transformational gifts. But they’re not giving those gifts right now because no one has taken the time to see them, dream...
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Have You Discovered the BEST Strategy for Mid-Level and Major Gifts Success?
When Richard asked me if I wanted to join his major gift consultancy back in 2009, he had already established the backbone of the strategy, structure, and process of what we now call The Veritus Way...
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Client Corner: “Veritus is my go-to source for major and mid-level gift information.”
Veritus Group: July 7, 2023
Today’s Client Corner article features an interview with Maureen Gregory, Director of Leadership Gifts for Freestore Foodbank. As Maureen Gregory tells it, she “fell into fundraising.”
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Stop Dragging Your Feet: It’s Time to Take Mid-Level Seriously!
Remember last week’s blog, where I touted that Veritus clients saw their major gift revenue go UP by 22% on average, versus the national average of LOST revenue at -4%, based on the Fundraising...
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New National Major Gift Revenue Numbers: 2022 Down Over 4% from 2021, but Veritus Clients Are UP 22%! Why?
I just finished reading several blogs and reflections from AFP-ICON, which just wrapped up in New Orleans, and it sounds like people are extremely nervous! Why? Because a recent report by the...
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Find the Planned Gifts Buried in Your Database: How to discover millions of dollars in gifts you didn’t know were there
If you have a data set of 10,000 donors who have been giving for at least ten years and have made a gift within the past three years, I’d bet you have about 67-81 donors (with an average of 74) with...
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Why Your Donor Doesn’t Talk About Their End-of-Life Charitable Plans
“How many of your donors have made a planned gift?” A question like this, or really anything related to “planned giving,” strikes terror into your heart and the hearts of every other fundraiser I...
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Being a Frontline Fundraiser is NOT a 9 to 5 Job!
Recently, we shared on Facebook and our other social media about a free white paper of ours called, “Six Secrets to Becoming an Extraordinary Major Gift Officer.” One of the six secrets is that if...
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What Journalism Can Teach Us About Fundraising
One of the best things we can do for ourselves is look at how someone else is doing their work and explore how to apply it to what we do in fundraising. Take asking questions, for example.
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Question of the Month: Why is co-management helpful and what does it mean?
Most organizations simply don’t have enough resources devoted to training and supporting managers, which means that fundraisers are often left to fend for themselves. Without consistent input,...
