How to Do It All
There are strategies that can help you stay on course and help you be successful in major gifts. Here are some thoughts to help you.
There are strategies that can help you stay on course and help you be successful in major gifts. Here are some thoughts to help you.
Major gift fundraising is a long game. Relationships take time. To be successful over the long term you need to think long-term. You need to know where you are going. Do you know?
It’s hard to ask a donor for a gift when you are sitting in front of them. It can be intimidating and scary. But you can overcome this.
Once you have a culture of individual donor goals in major gifts, it becomes easier to create a “bottom-up” approach to the budgeting of the entire development department.
Having a CEO or Executive Director who embraces his role in major gifts is critically important. You have to get him there.
There may be other things your development manager wants, but these ten come from my 30 years of experience of managing, watching others manage, and sitting at the feet of wise managers who have given me wise counsel.