A capital campaign is a strategic and comprehensive fundraising effort by nonprofit organizations to raise significant sums of money for a specific project or purpose.

Find our articles about capital campaign fundraising best practices below.

Capital Campaign Readiness: Expert Q&A | GPG2024

Your Questions and Our Answers on Campaign Readiness

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Crucial questions about capital campaign readiness answered: When to engage donors? Feasibility study necessity? Board's role? Get expert advice.
Is YOUR Image Ready for the Capital Campaign Spotlight? | GPG2024

Capital Campaign Readiness #6:  Is YOUR Image Ready for the Spotlight?

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Boost your capital campaign success! Learn how a strong public image can inspire donor confidence and drive fundraising results. Checkout our checklist for success.

#4 Capital Campaign Readiness: Is Your Donor Prospect Pipeline Ready?  

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Is your nonprofit’s donor prospect pipeline ready for a capital campaign? This 7-point checklist will help you assess donor readiness and set your campaign up for success.
Is Your Board Ready to Lead Your Capital Campaign?

#2 Capital Campaign Readiness: Is Your Board Ready to Lead?

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Discover the 7 key factors to assess your board’s readiness for a successful capital campaign. Our guide provides actionable tips to motivate your board.
Porch Party: Boost Donor Engagement before Campaign | GPG

How I Launched a Capital Campaign with a Porch Party

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Kickstart your capital campaign with a bang! A porch party is the perfect pre-launch donor engagement event to build excitement & secure early commitments.
Recurring Donors Are Worth the Investment

Donor Readiness: The Secret of All Successful Capital Campaigns

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Don’t risk a failed capital campaign! Assess donor readiness now & take strategic steps to cultivate capital campaign relationships.
What Is Campaign Momentum? (And How Do I Build It?)

The Secret to Building Momentum for Your Capital Campaign

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Is your campaign stalling? Learn the secrets to building momentum & achieving your fundraising goals. Contact us for a free strategy call.
Boost Capital Campaign Gifts: Prepare Donors for Asks | GPG

Big Capital Campaign Asks: How to Reduce “Surprises” and Prepare Your Donor

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Master the art of the major gift ask. Get expert tips on building relationships and securing big capital campaign donations.
What Does a Capital Campaign Consultant Actually Do?

Capital Campaign Consultants: What Do They Do?

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In the world of nonprofit fundraising, capital campaign consultants play a crucial role helping organizations plan, execute, and manage high-dollar capital campaigns. As we all know, capital campaigns are major fundraising efforts…

Capital Campaign Success: The #1 Ingredient You Need

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Capital campaign success - this is what we all dream of! As capital campaign consultants, we want our clients to get organized quickly, galvanize their major donors, and secure transformational gifts to fuel their missions. But there…

Storytelling Tours Are Great Donor Cultivation Tools

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One of our favorite donor cultivation tools is a carefully-designed storytelling tour. But we are not talking about just any tour - this is a special, scripted, step-by-step tour. A Storytelling Tour can help you spread the word in your community…
Our $5 Millon Capital Campaign Ask that BOMBED

A $5 Million Capital Campaign Ask that BOMBED

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I wish you could have been there. . . . It was a hot summer day in Virginia. We were seated in a small conference room with one of Virginia's top business kingpins. There the successful businessman sat --  so smart and so together…
How to Host a Successful Porch Party

How to Host a Porch Party, a Fun Donor Cultivation Event: Our Full Resource Guide!

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This is our complete guide to a successful Porch Party, a donor cultivation event. Small socials can help build community support and engage new donors.
Unleash the Power of Parch Parties

Webinar | 3 Ways a Porch Party Can Ignite Interest in Your Cause

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Just imagine: what if you had a new way to increase visibility and make new friends for your cause? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you had an authentic and impactful way to help donors get to know your work, build trust and establish…

How to Get Ready for a Capital Campaign

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What does it take to really be ready to start a capital campaign? Often we see board members and leaders chomping at the bit to move quickly. And we hear from some fundraisers that they feel pushed to get going and start asking for lead gifts…
Top Capital Campaign Trends

Top Capital Campaign Trends for 2023

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Capital campaigns are everywhere these days. Despite a murky economic outlook, nonprofits large and small are moving forward with big fundraising goals and high dollar campaigns. We’re seeing some interesting new capital campaign trends…