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Get Your Donor Calling Muscles with this Checklist

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Get Your Donor Calling Muscles with this Checklist

This is the perfect time to sharpen your donor connection skills. And one area I want to focus on today is what we typically call “cold calling,” although I’d like to advocate that we rename this term!

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QOTM: What are the guiding principles of The Veritus Way of fundraising?

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Question of the Month: What are the guiding principles of The Veritus Way of fundraising?

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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Gut Check: Everyone Needs to Do It

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Gut Check: Everyone Needs to Do It

I recently renovated my home office. What a project. Just getting ready took a full week. I moved everything out and committed to purging and not bringing anything back in that I didn’t use or love....

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The Insights I Have Gleaned by Analyzing over 1,000 Donor Files

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The Insights I Have Gleaned by Analyzing over 1,000 Donor Files

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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You’re Going to Be Okay: A Year-End Reminder

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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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Changing Your Major Gifts Program from Transactional to Relational

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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

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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

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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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What It Means to Win in Fundraising: Lessons from the Olympic Games

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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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