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How to Have a Super Successful Visit with a Major Donor

Major donor visits can be nerve-racking. Here you are with a golden opportunity—you've obtained a meeting with an important capital campaign prospect.It’s exciting but it is also high-stakes – because, of course, you want to…

Create a Strong General Unrestricted Fundraising Ask

How to Create a Strong Unrestricted Fundraising Ask

For years, the default fundraising appeal letter at many nonprofits has sounded the same: a general ask for unrestricted support. The problem? That kind of message simply doesn’t light a fire in today’s donors. If your appeal is still built…

#1 Year-End Fundraising Tip: Warm Up Your Donors Before The Ask

Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising Campaign

If you are starting to prepare for your annual fall fundraising campaign, it's time to get busy!Here's a first step to a successful year-end fundraising campaign:Warm up your donors first, before you do anything else. Simply start reconnecting…

7 Tips to Create a Wildly Successful Donor Cultivation Event

Events, Major Gift Fundraising

Why do we hold major donor cultivation events? These types of gatherings happen everywhere, and they happen often in the fundraising world. We find that a lot of major gift fundraising happens in these types of quasi-social donor events.Here's…

Create a “Friendmaking” Committee of Board Members

Annual Giving, Friendmaking

Do you want to get your board members actively making friends for your organization?Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could form a "Friendmaking Committee" of board members who'd be out there opening doors and hosting small friendmaking events?…

What Does a Capital Campaign Consultant Actually Do?

Capital Campaign Consultants: What Do They Do?

Capital Campaign, Fundraising Strategy

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

Capital Campaign, Fundraising Strategy

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…

Seven Misconceptions About Fundraising Holding Your Organization Back

7 Fundraising Misconceptions Holding Your Organization Back

Culture of Philanthropy, Inspiration

As we all know, fundraising can be a wildly misunderstood activity. Many nonprofit CEOs and board members bring their own personal misconceptions about fundraising when they walk in the door of a nonprofit. Some think fundraising is awkward…

How and When to Announce Your Capital Campaign

How & When to Announce a Capital Campaign

Fundraising Strategy

Often board members will challenge us about the timing of a capital campaign announcement.The perennial question is:"When is the right time to announce our campaign to the public?"Sometimes organizational leaders will push…

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