How to Work a Room Full of Donors
Do you struggle a bit with how to work room full of your donors? It’s okay. It’s not an easy thing to do for anyone, much less a major gift officer.
How to Work a Room Full of Donors
Every major gift fundraiser has had the experience of entering a large room full of their organization’s donors and supporters – and feeling a bit intimidated. Worse, some feel dread, fear and even panic about what to do. Their first thought is immediately to turn...
Social Media and Major Gifts – #2: Cultivating and Reporting Back
How are those Google Alerts and Tweetbeeps working for you? I hope you’ve been able to see how they can help you get to know your donors. Now, I want to turn to how to use Social Networking tools to further cultivate and report back to donors. You may have read one...
Social Media and Major Gifts – #1: Deepening Relationships
I get weird looks from development directors when I ask them what their social networking strategy is and how it is used in the overall strategic plan with their major gift program. “What? That’s handled by our mass communication team,” or “Huh? Major donors are not...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
