Be Curious or Die!
To be a great major gift officer, you have to carve out time each day – or a part of each week – to look at your major donor caseload and let curiosity start to take over. Learn more about how to develop this trait in this post.
How Silos Abuse the Donor
Be doubly sure you know the whole story of every donor on your caseload. Because if you don’t, you run the risk of abusing and harming your donor.
Three Steps to Securing Bigger Gifts
If major donors are right in your donor file, but you don’t believe they are, you will not look for them. If they can give more, but you don’t believe they can, then you will not ask them.
How to Succeed in Your First 60 Days
If you, as a new major gift officer, will follow this road map in your first 60 days, I know for a fact that you will be serving your non-profit, your donors and yourself very well.
The Beauty of the Local Butcher
Your donors are not just numbers and results from a campaign report. They are human beings with passion and dreams that want to help change the world. You’re only going to know what they really are when you can sit across the table from them and look them in the eye.
What Your Major Donors Want
More than 50 donors who have made large gifts were interviewed about what they want from the recipients of their charitable gifts. There are some great nuggets in here for all major gift officers to consume.
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Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
