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How to Love Your Donors After You Leave

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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 another every 2-3 years. Richard and I have written about this fact many times, and it doesn’t look...

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10 Steps to Creating Compelling Donor Offers

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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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Are Donors Even Reading Your Emails? 13 Pro Tips to Help You Write Better Emails

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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?

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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?

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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.”

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Do You Qualify Mid-Level Donors?

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Do You Qualify Mid-Level Donors?

As you may already know, part of the Veritus Way of major gifts is to make sure you ONLY have qualified donors in your portfolio. (You can learn more about our major gifts qualification process...

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The Startling Reality of What Little Time You Have to Work with Donors

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The Startling Reality of What Little Time You Have to Work with Donors

I am not and will never be a mathematician, but there is power in breaking things down using a little math to make them real. This blog grew out of a conversation I had with my incredible colleague,...

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Five Ways to Make Space for Self-Care in the Non-Profit Sector

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Five Ways to Make Space for Self-Care in the Non-Profit Sector

“I’m doing the work of three people right now because of layoffs.” “My CEO expects to meet daily AND on camera!” “Working remotely, there’s no separation between work life and home life.” These are...

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Do You Want a Great Major Gift Team? Hire a Great Manager!

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Do You Want a Great Major Gift Team? Hire a Great Manager!

After 15+ years at Veritus helping non-profits increase their revenue from major gifts (meaning mid, major and planned giving) we’ve learned that the number one element for success is great manager...

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18 Barriers to Effective Relational Fundraising

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18 Barriers to Effective Relational Fundraising

Every non-profit organization I’ve encountered has some kind of barrier that prevents a donor from freely giving to their heart’s content to that organization.

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