by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Dec 19, 2016 | CEOs, Freedom, structure | Leadership, Major Gift Officers, Management, Uncategorized
Part 6 of a Six-Part Series: Six Reasons Your MGO Will Stay at Your Organization “Are you kidding… I should just allow the MGOs to make mistakes? That will keep my MGOs from leaving?” – this is what you were probably thinking after you read the headline of this blog....
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Dec 7, 2016 | Boundaries, Evaluation, Management, structure | Discipline, Major Gift Officers, Management, Uncategorized
Part One of a Six-Part Series: Six Reasons Your MGO Will Stay at Your Organization We all want to keep good people working with us. But in our industry, it seems as if keeping MGOs in the same job for more than a couple of years is impossible. This is really a problem...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Oct 17, 2016 | Communication, Relationship, structure | Development Directors, Leadership, Management, Teamwork, Uncategorized
Part 1 of a 2-Part Series on Management and Major Gifts Veritus exists because it’s hard to manage major gift programs and major gift officers – so we help. My business partner Richard Perry has great management and business acumen. He’s led a number of successful...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Sep 26, 2016 | Boundaries, gratitude, structure, Work | Discipline, Fundraising, Overworked, Stress
On occasion we like to send out a survey to you, our blog readers, to get a pulse on what you are working on or what concerns you right now. In a recent survey, it amazed us how many responses we received that lamented about how you MGOs don’t have enough time to do...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Aug 22, 2016 | Attitude, structure, Vision | Fundraising, Major Gift Officers, Major Gifts, Uncategorized
“Our donors are very different; they are not like other donors.” “You know, we really don’t have a vision in our organization and this is why we can’t raise major gifts.” “We don’t have any truly high-dollar donors in our database, and we don’t even have any...