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Love Song to My Major Gift Prospect List!

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I’m admitting it. I'm warped. By Gail Perry Updated October 2025 Here's my confession: when I was a front-line fundraiser, I just loved my major gift prospect list. Even more, I loved the hunt to find lovely, generous, wonderful major gift…

They really did say all this stuff!

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Are you on the fence about joining our fundraising learning community? If so, I thought you might like to hear testimonials from some fundraising coaching members - about their real concrete results and success stories. “We applied strategies…

5 Tips To Ask Face-to-Face for Big Gifts in 2023

"What are the best practices in face-to-face asking?" One of our Major Gifts Intensive organizations asked us this question last week. They were ready to dive into person to person Gift Conversations. Today we're sharing a summary of what…

5 Steps to Build Donor Loyalty & Retention in 2023

We’re having some fun with donor retention today. We do know that donor retention = donor loyalty, right? So donor retention is the name of the game for the coming year, and beyond. And your ultimate goal as a fundraiser is to build up…

5 Simple Tips to Nail Your Online Fundraising in 2023

Online fundraising continues to grow in importance for all nonprofits. More and more gifts are coming in via website donation pages. However, we are seeing so many basic mistakes on nonprofit websites - of both large and small organizations. The…
5 Steps to Attract Major Donors

5 Ways to Attract Mega & Major Donors in 2023

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Here’s the third in my series of state-of-the-art fundraising tips for the new year: How to draw mega donors closer to your cause. There’s new thinking out there about cultivating prospective major donors. And it centers on this: How…

5 Steps to Create a Profitable Fundraising Plan in 2023

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Why do you need a full-fledged, profitable fundraising plan? A fundraising plan will help you operate a full efficient and profitability - and you'll raise far more money with a plan of action. It will help you control the flow of work in…

5 Ways to Give Board Members a Fundraising Makeover in 2023

Are your board members unsure about fundraising?  Do they back off when you want their help? It's actually pretty normal.  Especially if your board members are not familiar with fundraising - how it works and how to make it successful. And…

Do You Really Need a Nonprofit Mentor?

The nonprofit sector is a strong and vibrant community full of people willing to help each other out. And now more than ever, it’s important to come together and work as allies and mentors. This is a guest post from expert author John…
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