Really big gifts can have a transformational effect on a nonprofit organization. Here … some ideas on how to cultivate them.

By Terry Burton

A little history
Men and women of vision have been getting involved with nonprofit organizations for more than a century. Let me take you back to San Francisco, the year 1878 and the announcement of a gift of $100,000 — one of the first transformational gifts in the U.S., which created the University of California Hastings College of the Law.