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Andrea Kihlstedt

Get Your Elevator Pitch-Perfect As You Prepare for a Capital Campaign

Get Your Elevator Pitch-Perfect As You Prepare for a Capital Campaign

By Andrea Kihlstedt

As you begin planning for a capital campaign, you've got to get everyone speaking the same language about your organization -- your board members and staff members, the person who answers the phone and (especially) the person who sits at ...

Filed Under: Campaign Planning, General Campaign

Use the Public Phase of Your Campaign to Energize Your Community

Use the Public Phase of Your Campaign to Energize Your Community

By Andrea Kihlstedt

After a long and often arduous quiet phase, during which your campaign will raise 60% to 80% of your campaign goal, you will finally kick-off the public phase of your campaign. Prior to your campaign kick-off, you’ll have solicited all ...

Filed Under: Public Phase

How to Announce Your Capital Campaign to the World

How to Announce Your Capital Campaign to the World

By Andrea Kihlstedt

Ready to announce your capital campaign to the world? You might be. First, ask yourself these three questions: Can you see your campaign success right around the corner? Were your largest donors as generous as you had hoped? Have you ...

Filed Under: Campaign Planning, Most Popular, Public Phase

Donor Recognition for Capital Campaigns: 3 Points to Consider

Donor Recognition for Capital Campaigns: 3 Points to Consider

By Andrea Kihlstedt

When it comes to capital campaigns, one idea is always quite clear: Donor recognition matters. A lot. A whole lot. Recognizing Donors for Their Capital Campaign Gifts is Crucial Recognizing people for their generosity is important. What's ...

Filed Under: Donor Cultivation, Post Campaign

Endowment, Planned Giving, and Capital Campaigns: A Winning Combination

Capital Campaigns and Endowment Fundraising: Does It Work?

By Andrea Kihlstedt

My heart always sinks when an executive director tells me that they want to plan an endowment campaign to raise enough money so that they don’t have to raise money ever again. It’s just wrong-headed. Why? We’ll take a look and lay out our ...

Filed Under: General Campaign, Most Popular, Pre-Campaign

Add a Thimble-Sized Capital Campaign to Your Fundraising Toolbox

Add a Thimble-Sized Capital Campaign to Your Fundraising Toolbox

By Andrea Kihlstedt

When you think about a capital campaign, you probably imagine that it’ll take two or three years -- perhaps even more. And often it does. Once you’ve decided and honed what you are going to raise money for, then the process of building a ...

Filed Under: General Campaign

Why You Need a Capital Campaign Coordinator To Make Your Campaign a Roaring Success

Why You Need a Capital Campaign Coordinator to Make Your Campaign a Roaring Success

By Andrea Kihlstedt

If you want your campaign to be successful, you'll have to invest in it. You simply CAN'T do it all yourself! Your campaign will suffer. You will burn out. And the details won't be right! And ... drum roll ... you can add the cost of ...

Filed Under: Campaign Planning, General Campaign

10 Steps to Create a Solid Case for Support for Your Campaign

10 Steps to Create a Solid Case for Support for Your Campaign

By Andrea Kihlstedt

When you hear the phrase “case for support,” do you immediately think about a brochure? If so, this post will open and unlock your thinking. Because a case for support isn’t a brochure, though it may look like one sometimes. No! A case for ...

Filed Under: Campaign Planning, Pre-Campaign

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