If you really are going to be successful with major donors, creating work/life balance will be essential. Here are some practical applications you can use to help you achieve that balance…
Major gift officers have the hardest job we can think of in the non-profit space. In many ways, you have to be everything to everybody.
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.
If you have to do an event and you’re inviting your major donors, you need to be careful and have the right strategic approach. Don’t get sucked into the event black hole, never to be seen again.
Major gifts officers are sometimes unsuccessful because they’re expected to have a “servant attitude” and pitch in with every organizational program and need. This is not their job, and they shouldn’t be doing it.
Events and major gift fundraising don’t easily go hand-in-hand. This white paper tells how to do this delicate dance – if you decide to have the party at all.
The back office is just as important as any donor-facing activity. We simply need to get that fact into our heads and into our practice as fundraisers.
We in the non-profit world have a tough time with taking our work too personally. This work you do every day requires that you hold on, but not too tightly. To take it seriously, but not too personally. To do hard things, but to do it with joy.
We all have those doubts and worries that freeze us into inaction. And the best way to deal with them is to throw them out into the light and talk about them. Here’s a simple process to do so.
