When You’ve Lost Your Motivation
Being a major gift fundraiser is an emotionally taxing profession. It has tremendous highs and lows. Sometimes, you might lose your motivation. Read more how to stay motivated in your work.
Being a major gift fundraiser is an emotionally taxing profession. It has tremendous highs and lows. Sometimes, you might lose your motivation. Read more how to stay motivated in your work.
To be a great major gift officer, you have to carve out time each day – or a part of each week – to look at your major donor caseload and let curiosity start to take over. Learn more about how to develop this trait in this post.
There are two words in fundraising that cause my stomach to tighten every time I hear them. These two words live together in the minds, discourse, and language of thousands of fundraisers.
You need to find ways – sometimes surprising or unusual ways – to break through the daily clutter and noise of a donor’s life. When they notice you, it can be a pleasant surprise.
You probably would never think of saying “no” to a donor. But in a healthy relationship, sometimes a major gift officer has to set boundaries.
How are you doing with listening and giving donors what they want?