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Management (3)

 Five Things You Must Do in Caseload Management at the Beginning of This Year

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Five Things You Must Do in Caseload Management at the Beginning of This Year

Don’t let one more minute of this new year go by before you cross off the following five things in your major gifts caseload management: Review your caseload and make donor additions and deletions....

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Hiring and Retaining the Right Fundraising Talent

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Hiring and Retaining the Right Fundraising Talent

This post is part-four in a four-part series titled “Reimagining the Non-Profit Workplace” My guess is that right now, either you or someone you know has left or is thinking about leaving their...

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How to Be A Manager People Want to Work For

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How to Be A Manager People Want to Work For

This post is part-three in a four-part series titled “Reimagining the Non-Profit Workplace”

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How to Deal With and Change a Toxic Non-Profit Culture

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How to Deal With and Change a Toxic Non-Profit Culture

This post is part-two in a four-part series titled “Reimagining the Non-Profit Workplace”

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Front-line Fundraisers Are Leaving… And It’s Your Fault

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Front-line Fundraisers Are Leaving… And It’s Your Fault

This post is part one in a four-part series titled “Reimagining the Non-Profit Workplace”

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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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