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How Are Feasibility Study Interviews Conducted? What the Data Shows

How Are Feasibility Study Interviews Conducted? What the Data Shows

By Steven Shattuck

Feasibility studies are a foundational step in the capital campaign process. Before launching a campaign, nonprofit leaders want to understand how their top stakeholders view the organization, how compelling the proposed vision is, and at ...

Filed Under: Feasibility Study

5 Capital Campaign Lies Board Members Tell Themselves

5 Capital Campaign Lies Board Members Tell Themselves

By Amy Eisenstein

After talking with hundreds of board members at more organizations than I can count, I’ve noticed a pattern. The same concerns, objections, and assumptions surface again and again when the topic of a capital campaign comes up. Most of these ...

Filed Under: Board Readiness

Quiet Donors: How to Steward When Donors Don’t Want the Attention

Quiet Donors: How to Steward Donors That Don’t Want the Attention

By Sarah Plimpton

On a recent peer support call for Capital Campaign Pro clients, a development director at an independent school -- let’s call her Margie -- posed a question that immediately resonated with the group. She described an alumni family that ...

Filed Under: Donor Cultivation

9 Tips to Build An Effective Capital Campaign Team of Staff and Volunteers

9 Tips to Build An Effective Capital Campaign Team of Staff and Volunteers

By Andrea Kihlstedt

Your capital campaign’s success hinges heavily on the work of a team that includes both staff and volunteers. An effective campaign team is essential to your success. And a team that works together with efficiency, respect, trust, and a bit ...

Filed Under: General Campaign

Why Pre-Campaign Planning and Guided Feasibility Studies are Crucial to Campaign Success

Why Pre-Campaign Planning and Guided Feasibility Studies are Crucial to Campaign Success

By Tammy Zonker

Successful capital campaigns are a collection of moments of heightened trust. They ask donors, volunteers, and leaders to believe not only in a vision but in the people stewarding it. How an organization shows up before the first ask, how ...

Filed Under: Feasibility Study, Pre-Campaign

Latest Research: The State of Capital Campaigns in 2026

Latest Research: The State of Capital Campaigns in 2026

By Steven Shattuck

Capital campaigns play a vital role in enabling nonprofits to secure the financial resources needed for major projects, infrastructure development, and long-term sustainability. And yet, the nonprofit sector has relied on anecdotes, ...

Filed Under: General Campaign

4 Practical Ways to Simplify Your Campaign’s Quiet Phase

Can’t Keep Up? 4 Practical Ways to Simplify Your Campaign’s Quiet Phase

By Amy Eisenstein

Development teams, large and small, are almost always overworked and under-resourced. Nonprofit leaders are juggling donor relationships, board management, programs, and day-to-day operations, often with too little time and too few ...

Filed Under: Quiet Phase

Rethinking the Kick-Off and Public Phases of a Capital Campaign

Rethinking the Kick-Off and Public Phases of a Capital Campaign

By Sarah Plimpton

At Capital Campaign Pro, innovation isn’t something we do occasionally -- it’s core to how we work. We’re constantly tinkering with the status quo, questioning assumptions, and asking whether there’s a better, clearer, or more strategic way ...

Filed Under: Public Phase

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