More Common Practices that Suppress Major Donor Giving
A couple of weeks ago Richard wrote a great post called “Common Practices that Suppress Major Donor Giving.” He touched on a few practices that we see all the time and make us scratch our heads and sigh. Two more of these came to my attention recently, and I had to...
Time to Check Your Focus
Once every month, I look at all my activities for the last 30 days to see how they align to my longer-term objectives. So, for you as a MGO, one of your objectives might be to increase the number of meaningful connections you make with your caseload donors. When you...
Three Burning Questions from Fundraisers like You
Richard and I get to do a lot of great things in our work at Veritus, including speaking at conferences and holding live call-ins with folks who are taking one of our Major Gift Academy courses. The reason we love it so much is not because we get to pontificate about...
How to Manage a Great MGO
Managing a development team is a tough job. Even tougher is managing major gift officers. Richard and I know this firsthand, because both of us have had to do it working for non-profits in our careers. We also know it because non-profits hire us to help them manage...
Get a Big Vision
I’ve been doing a lot of major gift data assessments lately, and there is one theme that is consistent in all of the data I’ve been reviewing from organizations like yours. It’s… You Have So Much More Potential! My guess is that it’s the same with your major gift...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
