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No Wonder You're Leaving

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No Wonder You’re Leaving

I feel like every six months or so, either Richard or I feel compelled to write about the state of turnover in our industry. It’s sad, because honestly, not much has changed in over a decade of...

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You Have a Hole in your Donor Pipeline

In my previous post, I talked about the need to diversify revenue and to get familiar with the elements of the donor pipeline. I outlined three areas I’m going to talk about in the next three posts:

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Are You Maintaining the Wrong Organizational Structure?

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Are You Maintaining the Wrong Organizational Structure?

Third in a Series: Unhealthy Major Gift Practices I have seen a lot of crazy organizational structures in my 40 years of working in fundraising. And I could go into a long monologue on each example...

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How to Transition a Mid-Level Donor to a Major Gift Officer

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How to Transition a Mid-Level Donor to a Major Gift Officer

How do you take a donor that a mid-level gift officer has been working with and hand him over to a major gift officer? Our team at Veritus gets this question all the time, because not only do we help...

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Talk to Each Other

Lately, I’ve been in several conversations with major gift officers asking me essentially the same thing: “What should I do when I can’t get something done with [fill in the blank with a department...

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Can You and Your Organization be Vulnerable?

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Can You and Your Organization be Vulnerable?

Building trust in any relationship is essential if that relationship is going to be real and authentic. As a major gift fundraiser, creating mutual trust with your major donors is really your...

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Non-Profit Leaders, There is No Shortcut in Major Gifts

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Non-Profit Leaders, There is No Shortcut in Major Gifts

Major Gift work is not easy. Yet when I read the headlines of our industry magazines and web sites, everyone seems to have either an easy way to do major gifts, or some kind of major gift fundraising...

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Breaking Through the Story You Created in Your Head

I just don’t know what it is, but lately I’ve been working with many MGOs who are really struggling with confidence. Either they’ve recently had a bad experience with a donor, or a donor just doesn’t...

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