MGOs Will Leave with Too Many Changing Expectations
Fourth in the series Six Reasons Your MGO Will Leave Your Organization A colleague recently told me about a MGO who been hired to do some amazing major gift work at a large food bank in a big city. The problem was that this MGO’s manager kept changing the MGO’s job...
MGOs Will Leave If You Give Them Unrealistic Goals
Third in the series Six Reasons Your MGO Will Leave Your Organization When speaking of fundraising goals, we’ve heard it all: “Look, just add 15% to what you got last year, and we’re good to go!” “It doesn’t matter that you got that one-time gift of $100,000; we need...
MGOs Leave If They Have Nothing to Offer Donors
Second in the series Six Reasons Your MGO Will Leave Your Organization Imagine hiring a salesperson and then having no product for him to sell. You wouldn’t do it. But it is done all the time in major gifts. It is one of the most common complaints we hear from MGOs,...
MGOs Will Leave a Culture that Focuses on Money vs The Cause
First in the series Six Reasons Your MGO Will Leave Your Organization It’s a sad reality: MGOs don’t stay very long in most organizations. In fact, the average length of their stay is 2½ years, with many MGOs leaving sooner than that. That’s why Jeff and I are going...
Strengthening Your Portfolio Over Time
#5 in the series How to Manage Your Portfolio Effectively I think one of the toughest things for us at Veritus Group, when we work with non-profit managers or leaders, is their expectation that major gift income will just magically grow overnight. The idea that...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
