How Facilitation Skills Make You a Better Fundraiser
Have you ever experienced a well-facilitated meeting? If you have, you most likely came out of it feeling like your time was respected and a lot was accomplished. There was space for more in-depth conversation, introspection, creativity, and inspiration. It probably...
Mastering Donor Conversations: A Guide to Purposeful and Meaningful Dialogue
I still remember that icky feeling I’d get after an awkward conversation with a donor. Phone calls in particular can feel weird for a number of reasons: your donor’s personality, your own comfort on the phone, or how trusting the donor is in talking to a fundraiser....
Resolve to be More Curious – Ask More Questions
Fifth of Six New Year’s Resolutions that will Change Your Life “Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” — Anthony Robbins You might be thinking, “This is a rather odd resolution. What’s this all about?” I’d be inclined to...
15 Questions to Help You Go Deeper with Donors
To be a great major gift officer, we believe you must be curious about your donors. Why? Because your job is understanding their passions and interests and why they have them. This will help you discover, out of all your projects and programs, what will inspire them...
The Art of Being Curious
One of the most important abilities of a MGO is being curious – to ask those questions (and keep asking them) that get to the deeper set of answers that will reveal the key drivers of the caseload donor. Author Dave Coffaro brilliantly writes in SmartBrief about the...TOP RATED PODCAST
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