Did you know that Veritus Group is an international consulting agency, with offices in the UK & Europe (in addition to our US & Canada team)? We often get questions about how The Veritus Way works in different cultural settings, so for this episode, Sara Di Lullo, Director of Client Engagement for Veritus UK and Europe, and Karen Kendrick, Senior Director of Client Engagement for Veritus Group in the U.S. and Canada, join Jeff for a conversation about how our clients are taking a relational approach to major gifts in an international context.

Veritus Group was incredibly honored to be the 2024 Presenting Sponsor for the AADO (African American Development Officers Network) Conference. AADO is a network of more than 3,500 fundraising professionals of color, and their annual conference is the premier event for fundraising, development, and operations professionals of color, and their allies.

During the conference, our team sat down with Birgit Burton, Chief Executive Officer of AADO; Nneka Allen, Founder of The Empathy Agency; and Christopher Beck, Senior Advisor for Principal Gifts and Inclusive Philanthropy at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, to talk about the projects they’re working on and the path toward racial justice in the non-profit sector. We were so inspired by this conversation and hope you’ll come away feeling encouraged by the insights shared and the progress toward racial justice in our sector.

Over the past two decades, our team at Veritus has analyzed hundreds of different non-profits’ data files, and we see the same trends over and over again. While overall revenue may go up year-over-year, many donors give less over time (or go away altogether). But organizations are often unaware this is happening because the loss is covered up by gifts from new donors. 
 
For today’s episode, Theresa Tapocsi (Client Experience Leader and and Client Services Data Team Lead) and Amy Chapman (Director of Client Engagement) join Jeff for a conversation about the process and approach we take in our free Donor File Assessment. If you’re ready to uncover your organization’s hidden potential and identify opportunities for relational giving, tune in now!

As a fundraiser, you have two roles in any donor meeting: the partner and the facilitator. In this podcast episode, Karen and Matt focus on the second role and share some practical tips you can start using today to successfully facilitate a donor meeting. Listen in to learn some of the common challenges fundraisers face around meeting facilitation and how you can use our Permission-Based Asking™ model to effectively move the meeting, and your donor relationship, forward. 

Building a partnership between mid-level and direct response is crucial to your organization’s success. Yet many organizations are missing out on opportunities to align these groups in a way that will strengthen the donor pipeline. For this episode, we invited special guests Becca Burgess, VP of Client Services at Moore, and Kara Ansotegui, Senior Director of Leadership Annual Giving at the American Cancer Society, to join us for a conversation about creating a partnership between mid-level and direct response that will result in stronger relationships with donors at every stage of giving.

What are the metrics that really matter in fundraising, and how can managers best support their teams to stay on track with those key performance goals? In this podcast episode, Jeff is joined by Matt Korn and Debi Dunham for a conversation about the metrics that truly matter for your fundraising success and how we approach these metrics in our coaching work with fundraisers.