3 Tips for Unlocking Year-End Success

3 Tips for Unlocking Year-End Success

It’s year-end and you’ve just landed a new job – now what? How are you going to ask donors for a gift when you don’t even know them? Or maybe you’ve had a portfolio, but it’s WAY too big, so there’s no way you can reach everyone. How do you know where to focus your...
Stop Using Donor Wealth Ratings to Build a Portfolio

Stop Using Donor Wealth Ratings to Build a Portfolio

I can’t believe I’m still writing about this, but in talking to many MGOs recently, we’re still returning to this issue: using donor capacity rankings (or wealth ratings) as the first criteria when building a major gifts portfolio. Just recently I heard of a large...
5 Things to Do When You Get Back from the Holidays [Podcast Episode]

5 Things to Do When You Get Back from the Holidays [Podcast Episode]

When you get back to the office or start up your computer again after a holiday, it always takes a while to get re-oriented. To help you refocus on your goals, here are a few tips for where to allocate your time in the first weeks of January. We hope you had a...