29 Ways to Prevent MGO Burnout
I’m not sure if there is something in the water, but over the last week or so I’ve received five emails from MGOs asking how they can deal with the amount of stress their job carries. So I’ve decided I’ll list a number of ways you can help reduce your work stress and...
How to Do It All
“My number one problem is that I want to focus on major gifts and I know it’s so important, but I have so many other responsibilities I can’t give it the time it deserves for me to be successful.” A struggling director of development said this to me in a recent forum...
Those Awful Events…
For many non-profits, I think that using events to raise money is like crack cocaine. Once they start they can’t get enough, and they become highly addicted. And if the non-profit wants to stop, they can’t – because the infrastructure and revenue expectations are so...
Killing Major Gifts with Service
There are a lot of non-profits whose donor back-office services work really well. And then there are non-profits that, for any number of reasons, lack back-office staff. This might stem from a lack of funds but, more often, it springs from the mentality of an...
Events and Major Gift Fundraising
We recently reviewed a non-profit that had an events superstructure. That is, the culture of their development department was essentially “all events, all the time.” They boast how the events team brings in about $6 million dollars a year in revenue. We started...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
