Respecting Your Donor Builds Healthy Relationships
Respect is a critical behavior a MGO must practice in all of his or her donor relationships. If you don’t respect donors, they will read it, and your relationships will not progress.
Respect is a critical behavior a MGO must practice in all of his or her donor relationships. If you don’t respect donors, they will read it, and your relationships will not progress.
Relationships with major donors will become strained if fundraising staff are not honest with them. Build trust through honesty.
Jeff and I place this trait – viewing donors as partners – as a critical piece of a healthy relationship with the donors on your caseload.
The relationship between a fundraiser and a donor starts with the fundraiser – you must get your own attitude right if you want a productive relationship with others.
If you go home at night with the feeling of having missed the mark in your work, there is probably something wrong, either in how you are viewing your work, how your work has been organized by others, or how you are operating.
MGOs will stay at an organization when the manager or leader isn’t constantly hovering over them and creating an atmosphere of fear in the workplace. And when MGOs are encouraged in this way, they will make mistakes. This is good.