As year-end giving heats up, here’s a list of major giving tips to help make this overwhelming time more manageable and successful.
Jeff Schreifels
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.
Events can be valuable for marketing and PR, and for acquiring donors. But the role of events is out of alignment in many nonprofits.
You probably aren’t spending much time meaningfully coaching your fundraisers, so here are some tips to help you be a better coach.
For many organizations, a big part of your summer planning is focused on the fiscal year-end. But before you get too deep into your fiscal year-end preparations, I wanted to share a few reminders and tips to help you keep this time of year strategic and relationship-focused for your donors.
Creating individualized 12-month communication plans for all 150 donors on your major gifts caseload to a fundraiser may initially sound like a lot of touch points to create. But the truth is you can create the vast majority of your planning for each donor in less time than you think.
