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Five years ago, Capital Campaign Pro co-founders Amy Eisenstein and Andrea Kihlstedt tapped me to become the company’s first Chief Happiness Officer. Yes, that is my actual title. They created the position because they wanted to build a ...
For nonprofit organizations, the CRM is the center of their fundraising operation. It stores donor records, communication history, gifts, reports, and years of valuable relationship data. But when it comes to a capital campaign, we keep ...
Capital Campaign Pro is launching Ready to Raise Sessions, a new series of free, weekly online trainings that give nonprofit leaders practical guidance for planning and executing successful capital campaigns. Beginning September 24, 2026, ...
During a capital campaign, when does pledge collection begin? You might think it begins when you send a donor a pledge form. Or perhaps when the first payment comes due. I’d argue that it begins earlier: in the conversation immediately ...
Capital campaigns rely extensively on large gifts. It’s common for 70% or more of the campaign goal to come from the top 20 gifts. So the success of your campaign will hinge your ability to build strong relationships with the people who ...
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, recently announced plans to place invisible watermarks in text generated by supported Claude models. Many nonprofits use Claude to help write cases for support, campaign brochures, donor letters, grant ...
Capital Campaign Pro co-founder Andrea Kihlstedt recently joined Allison McElroy on the Ask Allison podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about what decades in fundraising have taught her about donors, capital campaigns, careers, and the ...
Earlier this month, we invited fundraisers to send us their most pressing questions about boards and capital campaigns. In exchange, we offered to send one random (and lucky) participant a free copy of our new book, A Board Member’s Guide ...
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