by Richard Perry | Apr 24, 2024 | Budget, Budgeting, Budgets, Donor Journey, Donor Pipeline, Economics of Major Gifts, Finance, Return on Investment | Budget, Budgets, Economics, Finance, Fundraising, Pipeline Development
This blog post is the fifth in a series of six titled, “The House Your Donor Lives In.” The thing about fundraising budgets is that they are often allocated to various fundraising activities based on internal politics and/or history of spending. By...
by Richard Perry | Apr 19, 2024 | Donor Journey, Donor Pipeline, Organization Structure | Donor-Centered, Pipeline Development, Structure
This blog post is the third in a series of six titled, “The House Your Donor Lives In.” I think you would agree that the home you grew up in had a personality. Either your mother or father, maybe your siblings, or maybe all of them played a significant...
by Richard Perry | Apr 15, 2024 | Donor Journey, Donor Pipeline, Donor Relations, Organizational development, Relationship Building, Relationship Fundraising | Communication, Donor-Centered, Donors as Mission, Pipeline Development, Retention
This blog post is the first in a series of six titled, “The House Your Donor Lives In.” It’s good to be home. You’ve said that many times, haven’t you? I have. There is something about coming home – where things are familiar, where you feel you belong,...
by Jeff Schreifels | Mar 27, 2024 | Data, Donor Pipeline, Major Gift Pipeline, Measurement, Metrics, Moves Management, Upgrading Donors | Data, Direct Response, Donor Retention, Metrics, Moves Management, Pipeline Development, Upgrading
I was recently at a fundraising conference and there was a session on benchmarking. The discussion evolved around measuring the effectiveness of each stream of revenue, how to do that right, whether or not that was even relevant, etc. There was no discussion on how to...
by Jeff Schreifels | Nov 29, 2023 | Donor Pipeline, Major Gift Pipeline, Mid-Level Donors, Mid-Level Program | Mid-Level, Mid-level donors, Pipeline Development, Strategic Plans, Structure
I don’t know about you, but I love watching Reels or TikTok videos of the drain cleaners. You know what I’m talking about? There are tons of videos of clogged drains and you watch people methodically chip away at the clog until whoosh, the drain is unclogged and the...