It’s Not About You
I was recently talking to the CEO of a large non-profit. She was very frustrated with her major gift manager because he could not, in her words “get his frontline fundraisers to manage their interactions with donors in the right way.” I pressed for more information....
Worried About Meeting Your Fundraising Goals This Year? Here’s What To Focus On
Recently, I’ve been talking to several major gift officers all in different sectors of the non-profit community and many of them are racked with anxiety about meeting their revenue goals for 2024. Obviously, the economy is on everyone’s mind, and depending on the...
Fundraising Results on the Decline? It’s Time to Examine Your Paradigm
Today’s guest blog post was written by Diana Frazier, Senior Client Experience Leader at Veritus Group. One of the New York Times commentators I read regularly brought up the term “paradigm blindness.” He was using it in a discussion on the deep political divide...
Don’t Revert to the Old Way of Fundraising! Stay the Course.
Change is hard. But even harder is not regressing back to the old ways after change has been made. In college, I studied history. And, if you just look at the history of the U.S., whenever there is a big shift or change (take the civil rights movement, for example),...
The Only Way to be Outrageously Successful at Major Gift Fundraising
I want you to be so successful at major gift fundraising that you will never want to leave your profession and quite honestly, so that you’ll stay with your current organization for at least 5 years. The only way you are going to achieve that success and longevity is...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
