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Landing the Big Donor…
I can’t tell you how often I see a headline in a fundraising magazine, e-mail or tweet about “Landing the Big Donor.” It’s infuriating. What’s even crazier is that fundraising professionals and...
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Stay out of the Hairball!
The worst thing you can do as a major gift officer is to get involved in the Giant Hairball. What is the Giant Hairball? My good friend, Jeff Brooks, writes about it in his Future Fundraising Now...
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How Events Ruin A Major Gift Program
It is not surprising to me that many major donors do not give as they could to the causes they love. The primary reason they don’t is because MGOs do not ask them to. And one of the ways this happens...
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Who Should Be On My Caseload?
The subject of caseload composition is a hotly debated topic in major gift circles, just like the subject of how many donors should even be on a caseload. What kind of donors should be on my...
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Who Should Be On My Caseload?
The subject of caseload composition is a hotly debated topic in major gift circles, just like the subject of how many donors should even be on a caseload. What kind of donors should be on my...
