Major Donors--Handle With Care

"It can be a logistical nightmare to try to maintain all these relationships with one person," Klein explains. "I would say the best practice is not about maintaining relationships with these donors but about creating a team of people who maintain those relationships so that it's not 'my relationship with 200 donors' but 'my relationship with 10 or 12 volunteer board members who then have a relationship with the 200 donors.'"