by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Feb 6, 2017 | Learning, Mentoring, Strategy | Major Gift Officers, Structure
You can get a lot of advice from people like us, and from going to conferences, reading books and trolling the internet for all the pertinent information you need. And that is all good. But there is another strategy for information- and experience-gathering that is...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Feb 3, 2017 | Administrative Support, Donor Offers, Donor Research | Major Gift Officers, Structure
It was an interesting discussion. We were sitting with personnel from a very large international non-profit, talking about what constitutes a winning major gift team. This organization has almost 90 MGOs now, and they plan to grow their...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Jan 30, 2017 | Hiring, leadership, Management | CEO, MGOs, Structure
We’ve been working with major gift officers for quite a long time. I think that Richard and I and our associates have seen just about every type of personality, work ethic and passion (or lack of) in the MGOs we have managed. There is one...