Engage Conference Spotlight: Getting to the Heart of Major-Gifts Giving

1. Fall in love again with the cause or people who benefit from your organization.
2. Fall in love again with your donors.
3. Celebrate out-of-the-box thinking.
4. Have fun.
5. Publish your vision and mission.
6. Create and publish your list of values.
7. Bring a person served by your organization into your work environment.
8. Keep talking — always — about your donors and the people you serve.
9. Get away from your desk and talk with others regularly about your donors and the people and causes you serve.
10. Get emotional about things.

Schreifels will facilitate the major-gifts roundtables, "How to Land the Elusive Major Gift," at the second annual Engage Conference.