Truth Bomb #2: Fundraising is a Spiritual Endeavor
If you’re to be successful in major gift fundraising, you must hold this truth in your heart: major gifts work is spiritual in nature.
If you’re to be successful in major gift fundraising, you must hold this truth in your heart: major gifts work is spiritual in nature.
Money, position and power and getting used to how they “play” in our own lives is a critical and strategic subject.
When you offer an annual bonus or incentive pay, it can lead fundraisers to focus on the money instead of donor relationships.
Pay an incentive or bonus for raising money? This could lead to a wrong focus on money instead of donor relationships.
Ask yourself the question, “Who am I positively influencing and making a difference in their lives so that I’ll live on forever?”
When you’re feeling discouraged in your fundraising work, keep working your plan. Things will come back around as long as you’re doing the right things with the right people.