by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Sep 14, 2022 | Caseload Management, Caseload Value, Major Gift Officer | Caseloads, Major Gift Officers, Major Gifts
The other week, I posted on LinkedIn about the limits of a major gift caseload, and it caused quite a lot of reactions. It was a simple post that said: “A Major Gifts Officer cannot be expected to manage a qualified caseload of more than 150 donors in a meaningful and...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Aug 8, 2022 | Donor Pipeline, Goals, Metrics, Mid-level, Mid-Level Program, Mid-Level Programs | Caseloads, Mid-level donors, Pipeline Development
More and more non-profits are discovering that a mid-level program is the key to a healthy donor pipeline. If you’re wondering where to find more major donors, the answer is almost always: look to your mid-level donors. But how do you know if your mid-level program is...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Apr 1, 2022 | Caseload Management, Qualification, Qualifying Donors | Caseloads, Moves Management, Qualifying
How frequently do you move donors off your caseload? Once a year? Never? Only if they ask to be removed? Most fundraisers (and leaders) are not in the habit of regularly moving donors off of major gift caseloads, which results in caseloads that are bloated with donors...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Feb 9, 2022 | Caseload Planning, New Year, Refreshing your caseload | Caseloads, Major Gifts, Marketing Plans
Don’t let one more minute of this new year go by before you cross off the following five things in your major gifts caseload management: Review your caseload and make donor additions and deletions. Look at each donor on your caseload and review how they did in 2021....
by Karen Kendrick | Jan 14, 2022 | Individual Goals, Individual plans, Obstacles | Caseloads, Planning, Strategic Plans
Many times, when you start creating strategic donor plans, you realize there are critical pieces of information missing that would help you know what goal to set and plan to make but you know that conversation won’t be able to happen immediately. Yikes. You know you...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Jan 7, 2022 | Caseload Management, Donor management, Refreshing your caseload | Budgets, Caseloads, Management
I stopped giving to the organization in 1997. Yet I am still on their mailing list, receiving very expensive direct mail appeals, reminding me that I was once a great donor and my support meant so much – and could I give again? 1997. That was so many years ago. And...