by Jeff Schreifels | Sep 9, 2024 | donor relationships, Money over Relationships, Patience | Leadership, Mission, Non-Profits, Prioritizing, Relationships
Everything is full speed ahead. At least it feels that way. You know how they say as you get older time seems to go faster? When you’re a kid, summer seems to last forever. Now, at age 59, summer, to me, goes by way too fast. Our culture is either leading this effort...
by Guest Contributor | Sep 11, 2024 | Communication Preferences, Patience, Permission-Based Asking | Communication, Donor Conversation, Major Gift Officers, Passions and Interests, Permission-Based Asking, Planning, Relationships, Strategic Plans
Don’t worry – Veritus hasn’t turned into a cooking blog! Today we’re talking about human onions. Everyone has onions in their lives. Those are the people with the tough outer shell, where it’s hard to peel back the layers. It’s not just that they’re introverted – they...
by Jeff Schreifels | Jan 8, 2024 | Donor-Centered, Fundraising, Long-term thinking, Patience, Persistence | Culture of Philanthropy, Donor-Centered, Focus, Fundraising, Relationships
Well, it’s a new year! And as we welcome the new year, it’s a time for reflection, anticipation, and, most importantly, recommitment to your core values as fundraiser. Here at Veritus Group, the stories I’ve heard over the past year from our team are both...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Dec 3, 2021 | Donor Research, Major Donors, Patience | Asking, Prospecting, Relationships
It’s a funny thing about big gifts: they seem so hard to get – like trying to find a needle in a haystack. And in any given month we see scores of donor files, from some very good and prominent organizations, where there are no gifts above 5 figures – nothing above...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Dec 1, 2021 | Analysis, estate planning, Patience | Economics, Planned giving, Return on Investment
Getting buy-in for planned giving requires you to help the decision makers at your non-profit to understand the economics of planned giving. Because when they don’t understand the economics, they can’t see the millions of dollars they are losing. To us at Veritus,...