Resolve to Seek Joy!
Sixth of Six New Year’s Resolutions that will Change Your Life “Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with...
Who Are You Influencing?
I was watching a video recently from John Hayden, a colleague in our fundraising world who’s dying of cancer. He’s been thinking a lot about death, and he was talking about “the dash” in our lives. “The dash” is what we do between when we are born and the day we die....
You Get to Change a Life
The beauty of major gift fundraising is that you get to know donors in an intimate way. You’re in an enviable position among your other fundraising peers. Your direct-response colleagues are working with a mass audience and trying their hardest to segment the file to...
You Can Change a Donor’s Life
Did you know there are Major Gift Officers who have never sat down with a donor, looked them in the eye and asked them for a significant gift? Are you one of them? Over the years, Richard, our team and I have met many MGOs who have never asked a donor for a gift....TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
