Creating Donor Joy: Breaking Through the Noise with Thanks
A Three-Part Series on Thanking, Reporting Back and Serving Your Major Donors that Will Break Through Their Noise and Bring Them Joy #1 — Thanking Donors Does it ever feel like you are constantly being bombarded with noise? Information, news, Twitter, Facebook,...
Do You Know Where You Are Going?
Almost every morning I drag myself out of bed and drive to my local YMCA to do lap swimming. I like this Y because it’s in a working class neighborhood, and when the doors open at 6am I’m the youngest one standing in line waiting to get in. Not a lot of hard bodies...
Things Major Donors Love/Hate: Respecting Space and Time vs. Being Bothered
I had given a decent gift to the organization – not a large one, but enough to qualify for major gift status. And I was immediately assigned to a major gift officer. Because I was an involved supporter of this organization, I was in their offices in Washington, D.C....
Stop Prospecting!
Last week a MGO came up to me and said, “I am really frustrated that there’s no training on where to get major donors. I was at a conference on fundraising and asked several speakers this same question, and they didn’t have an answer. How do I find them?” Jeff and I...
The Essence of Moves Management
Define moves management. One person said: “Moves management is a system of policies, procedures and practices that directs the actions a nonprofit takes to bring in donors, forge relationships and generate major gifts.” Another said: “moves management is the process...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
