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Breaking Down the Silos: Why Your Development Team's Lack of Communication is Hurting Your Donors
I’ve been having the same crazy conversation over and over lately.
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New Year, New Thinking! Strengthening Your Internal Relationships
A three-part series to start the New Year right I love starting off a new year with goals, resolutions, and new ways of thinking. I love being inspired and pumped for the year ahead. In thinking...
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How to Improve Collaboration Across Your Organization to Better Serve Your Donors
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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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 websites, everyone seems to have either an easy way to do major gifts, or some kind of major gift fundraising...
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Do You Want a Great Major Gift Team? Hire a Great Manager!
After 15+ years at Veritus helping non-profits increase their revenue from major gifts (meaning mid, major and planned giving) we’ve learned that the number one element for success is great manager...
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How to Improve Collaboration Across Your Organization to Better Serve Your Donors
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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Can We All Get Along?
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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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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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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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...
