Seven Ways To Do What’s Expected In Major Gifts-#5 – Let Your Boss Know What You Are Doing
“I have no idea what he is doing!” said the manager. “And I don’t feel good about it.” And that is how it all begins – the downward slide of what was a good relationship into a dark pit of suspicion and conflict. We have seen this over and over again in the life...Seven Ways To Do What’s Expected In Major Gifts–#4 Get Out of the Office
There are 365 days in a year. 104 of those days get gobbled up in weekends. (Not saying you can’t work weekends, but stay with me). That leaves us 261 days. Blow 50 more days out the door with vacation, business meetings, holidays, etc. – you know how it goes....Seven Ways to do What is Expected in Major Gifts–#3 Do you Know Where you are Going?
“How much are you raising this year, Rachel?” I asked. “Oh, about a million,” she replied. “About? What do you mean about?” I asked, trying to get a more precise fix on the number. “That’s what my boss said. I raised around $900k last year and he said I need to do...Why Most Major Gift Programs Suck! #8: Not Donor-Centered
Reason #8: Most Non-Profits are NOT donor-centered. I don’t think there are two words that are spoken more often in our industry than “donor-centered.” Or is that just one big word? It doesn’t matter, you hear it all the time. I hear it at every conference, in a ton...TOP RATED PODCAST
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