For today’s episode, we invited Alex Fruth, Director of Development for the East Texas Food Bank, and Hannah Harris, Donor Engagement Advisor for the East Texas Food Bank, to share with us about how adopting The Veritus Way has made a huge difference in building deeper donor relationships and bringing in more revenue for their mission.

One of the greatest barriers to your success in relational fundraising is whether or not the rest of your organization understands and supports this work. So for this episode, we’re sharing some guidance, tips, and language to help you start talking about fundraising within your organization so you can get everyone on board and moving in the same direction.

We get a lot of questions from our community about basic best practices in fundraising. So, for this podcast episode, we’ve compiled some of the most common questions we receive about the basics to encourage you and help you make sure you’ve got the basics down.  

Planned giving is an essential part of relational fundraising, yet so many fundraisers avoid it simply because they don’t have a system that supports them to engage donors in this way. In this episode, we discuss the three legs that make up a successful planned giving program. Listen in to learn how to build a program that will support your fundraisers in securing more planned gifts for your organization’s mission.

We recommend starting your year-end planning now, but we know it can be overwhelming to think about everything you need to do. In this episode, we’re sharing some of our favorite tips and ideas to help you build efficiencies into your year-end plan, so that this time of year can stop being overwhelming and start being fun, creative, and impactful.

In this re-release of one of our most popular episodes, Jeff and Richard discuss the obstacles that are holding leaders back from investing in major gifts. They also share about the average ROI you can expect from a mature major gifts program, and the foundational elements you need to have in place in order to see those benefits.