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Major Gifts Series #3: How To Develop Your Own Courage for Major Gift Fundraising

I hope you are enjoying this email series I'm sending to help you succeed in major gift fundraising. It’s a lot of food for thought, so take some time to digest it. Focus on major gifts, and you’ll get the largest return on your investment…

Major Gifts Series #2: How to Avoid the Top 5 Major Gift Mistakes This Year

Major Gift Fundraising

Here’s the next in my series of tips to help you nail major gifts for your organization this year. Today, we can laugh at some of the bigger bloopers that we see in major gift fundraising. We are human, so we do sometimes make mistakes with…

Major Gifts Series #1: How to Get your Whole Organization Behind Major Gift Fundraising

Major Gift Fundraising

Here's the first of a series of articles to help you bolster your organization's major gift success. And I'm starting at the beginning- how to get full organizational support for major gift fundraising.All the studies show that when…

Major Donors are Changing – 5 Trends to Watch

Donor-Centered Fundraising, Major Gift Fundraising

What's going on these days with the most generous donors of all? How are they changing? What are their expectations of us? What do they really want? Do you ever wonder...How can I reach them? How can I appeal to their big hearts, and…

Checklist: How Do You Stand on the 12 Core Fundraising Systems?

Fundraising Plan, Nonprofit Leadership

Hurray for fundraising! It generates the funding to carry out your wonderful mission to make the world a better place.Just think, fundraising makes your work possible.So of course you and your leadership team want to NAIL a first-class…

The 12 Essential Systems Every Nonprofit Needs for Mega Fundraising Success

Fundraising Strategy, Nonprofit Leadership

Your nonprofit needs revenue to run and expand its programs.And, fundraising brings in the revenue - generating money so you can do more good in the world. Perfecting fundraising is a no-brainer.So, let’s focus on the critical core systems…

Top 10 Things to Understand About How Fundraising Really Works Today

Board Members & Fundraising, Nonprofit Leadership

Wouldn't it be wonderful if everybody in your organization agreed on what really works for fundraising success?What's important? What's not so important? What basic principles can you agree on?There's often a philosophical disagreement…

Three Quick Ways to Snag Last Minute Online Gifts

Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising Campaign

We're approaching the last week of the year. You know what that means!Hopefully - it means a flood of online gifts and donations through your digital donation portal. There’s a lot of money in play for deserving nonprofits in these last…

Fundraising Do’s and Don’ts for December

Year-End Fundraising Campaign

December is a wildly busy month for many fundraisers.Year-end fundraising is closing out, and we are all stampeding toward our goals.With things being so busy, where should you focus?To help you, here are my top Fundraising Do's and…

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