Inflation and a Troubled Economy Should Not Affect Giving
There’s a lot of noise out there about how inflation and a troubled economy are going to impact giving trends. And in many of our sector’s media channels, there are articles and news releases telling us to expect a drop in giving in the coming months and year. It...
You Need to Take Your Own Medicine
This is the final post in a 4-part series on “Why the Healthcare Sector Has to Focus on Major Gifts Now!” When we analyze healthcare sector donor files and see value attrition in the 60-85% range, one of the common contributing factors for this is that healthcare...
From the Front Lines: What Do You Do With an “In Memory Of” Major Gift?
Frontline fundraisers often ask our Client Experience Leaders for advice on donor relations. Here’s a recent example of a question we received: “Someone sends your organization a gift of $5,000 and attaches a note saying, “‘Please accept this gift in...
Here’s a Story About Why You Need to Know Your Donor’s Passions and Interests
We all create stories about who we think people are, based on either a snap judgment or seeing from afar their history of behavior. Sometimes that can be helpful to us. Other times, it’s quite hurtful. I think we do this quite a bit as fundraisers. You have a donor in...TOP RATED PODCAST
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