Mid-Level Fundraising Honors the Donor
Part Two of a Three-Part Series: 3 Reasons a Mid-Level Program is Critical If you ask any CEO or Executive Director if their organization is donor-centered, they will always say “yes.” But in reality, many are not. It’s not that they’re intentionally lying about it,...
Your Donors Want Choices
Several months ago, I was sitting at a conference table with a prospective client, talking about the process needed to create our Donor Impact Portfolio. The Donor Impact Portfolio, when it’s complete, is a list of all the organization’s programs and projects, broken...
Major Gift Organizational Structure — #4: The Four Main Things
So far, in this series on major gift structure, we have established that: Many organizations wrongly create structure around talent. There is a tendency to organize around similar activities or strategy. Often an authority figure “just decides” what the structure...
A System to Increase Transformational Gifts
Here’s a system you can use to increase the number of transformational gifts you are getting from your caseload donors. But first, some context… It is a fact that, buried in your caseload of donors, there are one or two people who can give a transformational gift to...
Align Major Gift Fundraising to Program
One of the most dysfunctional parts of a major gift program is the lack of information provided about the organization’s programs for fundraising. In fact, it is a problem in the fundraising industry in general. You would think that this would be the least of a...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
