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Your donors are on an incredible journey with you. They may have been in relationship with your organization for decades, starting out by giving through direct mail, then giving through their...
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Major Gift work is not easy. Yet when I read the headlines of our industry magazines and websites, everyone seems to have either an easy way to do major gifts, or some kind of major gift fundraising...
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For years, Richard and I have been saying that a non-profit should consider half of their mission to be about donors. In other words, your mission should be just as much about your donors as the work...
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If your non-profit has done more than two capital campaigns in its history, it’s most likely because you don’t have a strong major gift program and/or you’re using it as a crutch not to develop...
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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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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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“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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Your donors are on an incredible journey with you. They may have been in relationship with your organization for decades, starting out by giving through direct mail, then giving through their...
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If your work as a fundraiser is to help a donor experience the most possible joy through their giving by enabling them to give to projects and programs that will help change the world, then it should...
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This post is part-two in a four-part series titled “Reimagining the Non-Profit Workplace”
