Nonprofits Will Increase Efforts to Package Budget for Donors: #4 Trend to Watch in 2015

“I don’t have anything to present to donors,” the MGO said. And his manager, a little impatient, said: “Just look around you. Look at all the things we are doing. Get out there and get familiar with them, and then you will know what to present to donors!” That sums up...

Develop Offers that Donors Want: #4 of the 7 Keys to a Successful Major Gift Program

In this series of seven posts, you will learn the indispensable categories of work that we at Veritus believe are required for any major gift program to be successful. (You can read all of these together in our free White Paper.) In my last entry, I talked about...

If Program Fails You Will Fail

I recently heard of a situation in a large non-profit where a multi-million donor withdrew his giving from the organization he had come to love. The reason? The promise which had been made when he gave his $2 million dollars was not delivered by program. As I dug into...