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How to Use Your Equivalency Language
In the first part of this blog series, I shared with you the importance of creating equivalency language and how to create it for your organization. That’s the hard part.
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In the first part of this blog series, I shared with you the importance of creating equivalency language and how to create it for your organization. That’s the hard part.
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If you go to the Feeding America website right now, the very first thing you will see is $1 = 20 meals. It’s simple and effective. The organization is showing you the actual impact of every dollar...
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It starts the same way every time: a voice on the phone—excited, but shaky. “Jeff, we’re on board with a mid‑level program, but some folks here are… hesitant. Could you talk to the team?”...
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Over the past several weeks I’ve been reviewing our client’s quarterly results. They are stunning, both for major gifts and mid-level. Today, however, I want to focus on mid-level because not only...
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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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If you’re looking to grow your major gifts program, you need to establish a strong pipeline of donors that spans from new donor acquisition through major and planned gifts. But oftentimes, there’s...
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Today’s Client Corner article features an interview with Maureen Gregory, Director of Leadership Gifts for Freestore Foodbank. As Maureen Gregory tells it, she “fell into fundraising.”
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Remember last week’s blog, where I touted that Veritus clients saw their major gift revenue go UP by 22% on average, versus the national average of LOST revenue at -4%, based on the Fundraising...
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When did mid-level programs become an essential part of fundraising strategy? I remember it well. I was sitting in a conference room 10 years ago and a client of ours who we were working with on...
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More and more non-profits are discovering that a mid-level program is the key to a healthy donor pipeline. If you’re wondering where to find more major donors, the answer is almost always: look to...
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“Can you talk to our team?” It’s not an unusual request, but one we often receive when we suggest to folks that investing in a mid-level program is their logical next step in ensuring a healthy donor...
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While more and more organizations are waking up to realize they need to develop a mid-level program, the whole concept of mid-level donors and creating specific strategies and a program for them is...
Twice monthly, Jeff addresses current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.