Keep Your Major Gift Pipeline Flowing with a Mid-Level Program
Part One of a Three-Part Series: 3 Reasons a Mid-Level Program is Critical While the majority of our time and attention in this blog is about major gifts, we also write about the importance of the entire major gift pipeline. Today, I’m starting a three-part series on...
The Fascination with New Money
I just heard another tragic story of a MGO who has been beaten up by her boss with a demand for new money in her very first year of employment. It makes me angry and sad. Angry, because this boss does not understand how major gifts works and, because of his ignorance,...
Your Core Caseload: An Incubator for Transformational Giving
This is the first in a five-part series called How a Caseload Grows Over Time. There are two reasons it is very important for major gift officers to understand how this works: It’s a rational and objective explanation for the doubters and critics around you as to A)...Who Is Giving the Most?
In a recent survey, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that philanthropy increased 5.4% to a record $358 billion in 2014. This is not surprising. But I thought these findings were interesting: Living individuals, while giving the majority of the money, are not...TOP RATED PODCAST
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