Make Monthly Giving work for in time for year-end success! It’s never been more important to put Monthly Giving ‘front and center’ in all your donor communications! Learn how to make it work for you and your year-end success!
Landing the Big Major Gift Now
Major Gift Success Tips In Time For Year-End Success Major Gifts Success With only 90 days left in the year, do we still have time for major gifts? Of course! But you need to start now. Your annual giving program is the primary source of major gift prospects. Five to twenty percent of all donors […]
SUCCESSFUL 7 STEP MAJOR GIFT PROCESS
Borrow these seven steps for Major Gift Success Major gift fundraising isn’t rocket science! That is what major gift fundraising experts Jeff Schreifels and Richard Perry from the Veritus Group tell us in their blog. They do acknowledge that it is very hard work and it does require a process. Fortunately for us, Jeff and […]
Magic ‘Moves Management” Steps for Major Gift Success
Moves Management Skills Perfecting moves management is essential to securing major gifts. David Dunlap is a moves management pioneer. He says the moves concept focuses major gift fundraising on changing people’s attitudes so they want to give. What are moves? A cultivation opportunity. Any great way to get to know your prospect better and let […]
STEPS AND STAIRWAY TO MAJOR GIFT SUCCESS
You still have time in 2017 to make your major gifts super successful with these 13 steps from the book, Rainmaking: The Fundraisers Guide to Landing Big Gifts. Roy Jones and Andrew Olsen give us great ways to engage and connect with our major gift donors right now. 13 Tips for Major Gift Commitment It […]
Facing Disaster! How to Fundraise in Disastrous Times
Faced with over a month of terrible disasters in 2017, only weeks from year-end fundraising, how do we proceed to raise money for our causes without seeming insensitive to the horrendous circumstances facing so many? – Hi, Joy Olson here of Blockbuster Fundraising. You know, this year of 2017, the entire month of September and early October we have […]
A WINNING NEW DONOR WELCOME KIT
Most new donors will never give again, 70% to be more specific! So how do you keep them and turn them into loyal advocates for your cause? Follow these brilliant steps from the New Welcome Plan Save the Children has put together! It Works! And put together a welcome plan now in time for those […]
Donor Retention Success Hacks
We all know how important it is to keep our donors, that we could not meet our mission and fundraising goals without them, but do we know why they stick around? Roger Craver, in his book, Retention Fundraising, conducted research and shares his findings, the top 7 reasons that drive your donor to stay! What […]
Segmentation Steps for Year-End Success
The only way to great year-end results is to go over your database carefully and segment your donors into specific groups in order to direct specific communications they really want to see, hear or read. You need to know how to reach them and segmentation is the answer! Donor Segmentation for maximum fundraising results First […]
POWERFUL DONOR LANGUAGE
Empowering Language We all want to grab our donor’s attention, persuade them to read our message, and inspire them to make a gift. A fantastic way to do this is by using empowering language. Statements that excite the reader or that paint a picture will do wonders to help your message stand out. Here are […]
4th Quarter Calls for Donor Retention & Upgrading
Retain and upgrade Did you know that Individual donors account for 72% of all giving? Just think of how much more you could raise if you could retain and upgrade all of your donors. The sky is the limit! It is essential that you take the necessary steps to not only keep your donors but […]
A Fundraisers October To Do List
4th quarter is here as is the big year-end fundraising push! Here’s what you need to be doing right now in October if you want to dominate 2017 fundraising year-end results!