Get Your Hands Dirty
You probably know how large companies recruit junior executives fresh from a college MBA program. The outsider’s perception is that management immediately gives all new MBAs a beautiful office, incentives, and perks that put them on the fast track to the...
Be Human
The other day a major gift officer asked me what the best way is to get a donor to tell him her passion and interests over the phone, because he was struggling with it. For some reason the major gift officer was having a hard time connecting to a donor when he...
Summertime Lesson #5: Get Deep with Some Donors. Do Something Crazy!
Fifth in a series: Six Things You Can Do This Summer to Help You Win in the 4th Quarter! You have roughly six weeks left in your summer. And since summer gives many of us the opportunity to do things a little differently than the rest of the year, why not try...
7 Ways to Give Your Donors an Amazing Experience
As major gift fundraisers, I think we do a great job of providing opportunities for donors to give, thanking them for gifts, and providing them even more opportunities to give. What I think we have more work to do on, though, is giving our donors a great experience....TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
