Serving Your Donors Means Asking
For many years now, my colleagues and I at Veritus Group have been continually perplexed with how many major gift officers around the country aren’t asking their donors for gifts. I recall one meeting a few years ago when the development director of a non-profit...
A Crisis of Confidence
I believe there’s a crisis amongst major gift officers all over the world. It’s a crisis that is causing good people like you to struggle and lose faith in their skills, and it’s causing donors to question the mission of organizations they either support or want to...
Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
The counterintuitive beauty of having a structure to your major gift program is that it allows you to be incredibly creative within that structure. However, when you work within a structure and have a plan, it’s also easy to fall into complacency. You may become too...
Don’t Worry About Meeting Year-End Goals – Help is on the Way
“I don’t know how I’m going to reach the goals that have been set for me,” said the MGO. And with that one statement, this MGO joined the thousands of other MGOs we have worked with over the years, who come to this time of the year – the last quarter of the calendar...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
