What Do Your Donors Get Emotional About?
As of today, over $700 million dollars has been raised to rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral that burned earlier this week. It was within hours of hearing that this historic landmark was in flames that major donors started to commit vast sums of money to rebuild what...
You Need to Increase Your Overhead to Support Your Major Gifts Program
In the March 2018 issue of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, there was an article about overhead on a new survey by Grey Matters Research and Opinion 4 Good that says this: Donors really don’t care about overhead; what they really want to see is impact. Richard and I...
You Need to Increase Your Overhead!
In the March 2018 issue of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, there was an article on a new survey by Grey Matters Research and Opinion 4 Good that says this: Donors really don’t care about overhead; what they really want to see is impact. Richard and I have been...Major Gift Fundraising is Hard
I think Major Gift Fundraising is one of the toughest professions there is. But it should be. Anything that has such an enormous emotional payoff as fostering the act of giving and receiving has to be difficult. No question. This is important to understand. Major gift...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
