How Are Your Major Gift Fundraising Results?
At Veritus, our team has a Slack channel called “Celebrations.” If I’m ever feeling down, I go in there and it revives my spirit. Why? Because in that celebration channel are phenomenal stories that our team has posted on the amazing results our clients are getting. I...
The Structure of an Effective Fundraising Organization
Often, the reason the major gifts function in an organization doesn’t work is because the organization itself isn’t organized properly. Or the leaders in the organization don’t have a clear view of what the various functions in the organization are supposed to do....
Major Gifts Is Not Just Strategy and Structure
There are plenty of books, blogs, webinars, and training to tell you HOW to do major gifts, including all the content we publish. And if you absorb and retain all of it – from every source, and apply even the tiniest points – you may still fail at DOING major gifts in...
You Have a Full Caseload, How do You Manage Others?
Today’s post is directed to Development Directors or Directors of Major Gifts, but honestly, if you’re a major gift officer or leader of your organization, you can benefit from this too. Here’s a problem that Richard, our team and I get asked almost every week: “I’m...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
