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A Donor Offers to Give You Twice What You Expected
There were two events last month I want to tell you about.
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Gut Check: Everyone Needs to Do It
I recently renovated my home office. What a project. Just getting ready took a full week. I moved everything out and committed to purging and not bringing anything back in that I didn’t use or love....
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Soaking Up Fall: 5 Donor Strategies You Don’t Want to Forget!
I know there are people who relish the summer. Loading it with expectations of all manner of possibilities. They get a sinking feeling as sunsets start earlier in the evening and the air begins to...
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19 Fundraising Tips to Make Summer Successful!
May is already in full swing, and summer will soon be officially upon us. I spent 8 years as a development director for two non-profits in Philadelphia earlier in my career, and I loved summer....
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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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Want the Most Flexibility in Your Work? Have a Plan.
I want to be frank with you. I love what I get to be a part of in my role as a Client Experience Leader with Veritus. We partner with non-profit organizations doing amazing work all around the world....
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Mastering Donor Conversations: A Guide to Purposeful and Meaningful Dialogue
I still remember that icky feeling I’d get after an awkward conversation with a donor. Phone calls in particular can feel weird for a number of reasons: your donor’s personality, your own comfort on...
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Do You Have What It Takes to Get a Transformational Gift?
Right now, in this moment, you have donors in your caseload who could give transformational gifts. But they’re not giving those gifts right now because no one has taken the time to see them, dream...
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Have You Discovered the BEST Strategy for Mid-Level and Major Gifts Success?
When Richard asked me if I wanted to join his major gift consultancy back in 2009, he had already established the backbone of the strategy, structure, and process of what we now call The Veritus Way...
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Find the Planned Gifts Buried in Your Database: How to discover millions of dollars in gifts you didn’t know were there
If you have a data set of 10,000 donors who have been giving for at least ten years and have made a gift within the past three years, I’d bet you have about 67-81 donors (with an average of 74) with...
