From the Front Lines: What to Expect When You Try to Qualify Donors
As we work with thousands of front-line fundraisers, our team at Veritus gets to see how The Veritus Way of mid, major and planned gifts works itself out in real life. It’s one thing to say, “having a structure to your major gift program will help you develop...
The Gut-Check Method: 10 Questions to Ask Yourself
Is every donor in your portfolio qualified? More often than not, the answer we get from frontline fundraisers is “of course” when we start working with them. Knowing that we’re going to get this answer, we conduct a “gut-check” exercise by asking these questions: When...
Do a Gut-Check with Your Portfolio
Is every donor in your portfolio qualified? More often than not, the answer we get from a front-line fundraiser is “of course” when we start working with them. Knowing that we’re going to get this answer, we conduct a “gut-check” exercise by asking these questions:...
Here’s a Story About Why You Need to Know Your Donor’s Passions and Interests
We all create stories about who we think people are, based on either a snap judgment or seeing from afar their history of behavior. Sometimes that can be helpful to us. Other times, it’s quite hurtful. I think we do this quite a bit as fundraisers. You have a donor in...
Donors Don’t Love Your Organization
We all create stories about who we think people are, based on either a snap judgment or seeing from afar their history of behavior. Sometimes that can be helpful to us, and other times it’s quite hurtful. I think as fundraisers we do this quite a bit. You have a donor...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
