You Can Have More Major Donors in 2025
We are absolutely living in strange times. Many have coined it the second “Gilded Age.” We see power in the hands of extremely wealthy billionaires and the gulf between the wealthiest and the poorest continues to widen. This has also played out in your donor files....
Increase Giving by Asking for Restricted Gifts
You are coming up on the biggest giving months of the year: November and December. And in other countries, where the giving cycles are different, you can apply the same principles I am writing about here. But this is an important time for major gift giving. And that’s...
Election Day Jitters: What Should I Be Doing This Week?
Election day in the U.S. is tomorrow. How are you holding up? Are you anxious? Maybe you’re sick of thinking about it, sick of the ads and text messages and campaign emails. Are your donors? It can be tricky for us to know how to fundraise in an election year,...
You’re Using Campaigns as a Crutch!
If your non-profit has done more than two capital campaigns in its history, it’s most likely because you don’t have a strong major gift program and/or you’re using it as a crutch not to develop authentic relationships with donors. At Veritus, we have seen this...
The Insights I Have Gleaned by Analyzing over 1,000 Donor Files
One of the privileges I have in my work is that I get to review every donor assessment that we do. Over the last 15 years, I’ve reviewed well over a 1,000 of them. I love reviewing them because it gives me great insight on donor behavior, trends, and how much...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
