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Want Donors To Throw Money At You? Take This Approach

Transform your major gift visits and learn how to convince donors to give without making an ask.

Nonprofit Nightmare: Fundraising Horror Stories

Donor Cultivation, Fundraising Plan, Inspiration

To celebrate Halloween, we’re sharing our scariest fundraising horror stories! Read on, and avoid these nonprofit nightmares based on true events.

How Important is Technology to Your High Net Worth Donors?

Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising Campaign

How best to communicate with your high-net-worth donors? How important is your website and related technology to them?

What’s Motivating High Net Worth Donors Today? Part 1

Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising Campaign

Discover the motivations of high-net-worth donors and get effective strategies for successful donor outreach.

Capital Campaign Roadblocks to Fundraising Success

Annual Giving, Year-End Fundraising Campaign

Gail Perry and Kathryn Gamble discuss challenging capital campaign roadblocks including poor feasibility study results, and 3 other issues.

What is the Role of a Nonprofit Board in Fundraising?

Board Development, Board Members & Fundraising, Fundraising Strategy

The Fund Development Committee of the board can help everyone support this most important revenue-producing area of a nonprofit.

What Can Go Wrong with Your Board’s Fund Development Committee?

What Can Go Wrong with the Board’s Fund Development Committee?

Board Development, Board Members & Fundraising, Fundraising Strategy

Five ways Fund Development Committees go wrong from micromanaging internal operations to negating the power of the CEO.

How to Have a Super Successful Visit with a Major Donor

Donor Cultivation, Major Gift Fundraising

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…

#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…

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Want Donors To Throw Money At You? Take This Approach

Nonprofit Nightmare: Fundraising Horror Stories

How Important is Technology to Your High Net Worth Donors?

What’s Motivating High Net Worth Donors Today? Part 1

Capital Campaign Roadblocks to Fundraising Success

What is the Role of a Nonprofit Board in Fundraising?

What Can Go Wrong with the Board’s Fund Development Committee?

How to Have a Super Successful Visit with a Major Donor

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

7 Tips to Create a Wildly Successful Donor Cultivation Event

Create a “Friendmaking” Committee of Board Members

Capital Campaign Consultants: What Do They Do?

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