10 Foolproof Fundraising Tactics
Set aside time every week to phone and visit key donors one on one. Don't make that age-old mistake of only querying your donor database for your largest donors; pull up your most loyal donors and thank them — profusely. Survey them, create a low-cost event to honor them, ask them for their opinions on your legacy campaign mailing … you get the picture!
Pamela Grow is the publisher of The Grow Report, the author of Simple Development Systems and the founder of Simple Development Systems: The Membership Program and Basics & More fundraising fundamentals e-courses. She has been helping small nonprofits raise dramatically more money for over 15 years, and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Fundraisers by Civil Society magazine, and one of the 40 Most Effective Fundraising Consultants by The Michael Chatman Giving Show.
