Donors Love to Achieve Impact (Don’t Waste Their Money!)
Fifth in a Series: Things Major Donors Love (or Hate) I’ve always been a student of cause and effect and asking “so what?” Some of my friends say it’s irritating. Examples… Someone is describing a process – all the elements and sequencing, the cool attributes of this...
Major Donors Love being Thanked and Appreciated
Fourth in a Series: Things Major Donors Love (or Hate) You’ve had the experience: you do something for someone and nothing comes back. Silence. Crickets. I had an experience like this. I honestly didn’t set out to GET something back for taking an action that should...
Respecting Donors’ Space and Time (Don’t Bother Them)
Third in a Series: Things Major Donors Love (or Hate) I had given a decent gift to the organization – not a large one – but enough to qualify for major donor status. I was immediately assigned to a major gift officer. Because I was an involved supporter of this...
Major Donors Love When You Tell It Straight (not Manipulate)
Second in a Series: Things Major Donors Love (or Hate) It hadn’t gone well. The project Bill and Samantha had signed up for was just a tiny shred of what the MGO had sold them – and now they had questions. Tough questions. But the MGO wouldn’t answer them because he...
Major Donors Love Transparency
First in a Series: Things Major Donors Love (or Hate) I’ve been observing and relating to donors for over 40 years. And they’ve told me a lot of things. There are some things they love and hate in their relationships with the causes they support. I’ve made a list and...TOP RATED PODCAST
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