Jeff Schreifels

It’s OK to talk about overhead with your donors. They get it! Here’s a practical way for you to approach this conversation.

Retaining employees is critical, but even more so for your front-line fundraising staff. Here’s how to keep your fundraisers happy.

Early in the year, it’s important to thoroughly evaluate your caseload and do a caseload refresh. Let me walk you through the process.

While national giving may be down, your donors still want to give — and have the capacity to do so. Here’s how to encourage giving.

As year-end giving heats up, here’s a list of major giving tips to help make this overwhelming time more manageable and successful.

This is the busiest time of the year for fundraisers. Here’s some advice on how to develop your ask strategy for year-end success.

While year-end planning starts months in advance, here’s what you can do right now to set things in motion for the giving season.

Just when it feels like you’re making headway with a donor, they pull back. Here’s how being persistent in these situations pays off.

Here’s why a tiered caseload is so valuable to your fundraising success — and why you might be talking to the wrong donors.

Here’s how a development director inspired her board to help executed a five-year campaign.

Preparing for a donor meeting can be an intimidating experience. Here are five tips to keep you on track and give you confidence.

One reason donors stop giving is that organizations never tell them how they made a difference. Here’s how to show them their impact.

The nonprofit sector is at risk of moving toward ineffective fundraising, but relationship fundraising may be the solution. Here’s why.

Year end is great time to connect with donors when they are most engaged — and to fast-track relationships with your mid-level donors.

Direct response strategies are not a relational approach to mid-level programs. Here, I explain mid-level fundraising program elements.