by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Aug 22, 2022 | Donor Pipeline, Non-Profit Leadership, Non-Profits, Nonprofit management | Leadership, Management, Pipeline Development
This is part one of a three-part blog series: Warning, There’s a Gap in your Fundraising Knowledge and Experience. After working in this industry for over 32 years now, it’s clear to me that if you are going to be an effective non-profit leader, development manager,...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Aug 8, 2022 | Donor Pipeline, Goals, Metrics, Mid-level, Mid-Level Program, Mid-Level Programs | Caseloads, Mid-level donors, Pipeline Development
More and more non-profits are discovering that a mid-level program is the key to a healthy donor pipeline. If you’re wondering where to find more major donors, the answer is almost always: look to your mid-level donors. But how do you know if your mid-level program is...
by Guest Contributor | Jul 15, 2022 | Mid-level, Mid-Level Programs, Non-Profit Leadership | Leadership, Management, Mid-level donors, Overcoming Objections, Pipeline Development
In our last blog, Lisa Robertson shared the top five reasons leaders fear starting a mid-level program. I can’t let that go by without also sharing some concrete examples of how I’ve seen organizations overcome those initial fears to find incredible mid-level success....
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Jun 15, 2022 | Donor Pipeline, Management, Nonprofit management | Management, Pipeline Development, Strategic Plans
In my last blog, I wrote about why your organization’s future depends on your donor pipeline. I hope you’ve taken steps to find the donor pipeline in your organization structure. If you have, now it’s time to evaluate how you’re feeding and caring for that pipeline...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Jun 13, 2022 | Donor Pipeline, Management, Nonprofit management, organizational structure | Management, Pipeline Development, Structure, Structure
It’s always amazing to Jeff and me how the donor pipeline, as a strategic element of fundraising, is either ignored or mismanaged in most non-profits. The reason we know this is that we cannot see the pipeline in the organization structure of the non-profit. Here’s...
by Jeff Schreifels | Jul 8, 2024 | Donor Attrition, Donor Pipeline, Mid-Level Programs | Donor Attrition, Mid-level donors, Moves Management, Pipeline Development
We write about creating a healthy donor pipeline (pictured below) all the time. Why? Because we are advocates for donors and frontline fundraisers. I know that answer might sound odd, but let me explain. When you have a healthy donor pipeline, you’re allowing donors...