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If you’ve spent any time learning about sales or fundraising, you’ve probably encountered Feel, Felt, Found. It’s a simple and useful conversation technique for remaining in conversation when someone raises a concern or objection: Feel: “I ...
Most capital campaigns rely on very big gifts for their success. According to our annual benchmark study, the top 20 gifts typically account for 72% of the total campaign goal. So, to have a successful capital campaign, you’ve got to be ...
Are you stuck in the mud with your capital campaign fundraising? Tired of looking at spreadsheets and organizing committees and writing your case for support? Do you feel like you're not ready enough to actually contact your donors? Like ...
Even the best-planned capital campaigns — backed by strong feasibility studies, enthusiastic donors, and a compelling vision — encounter unexpected turns. Costs rise. Timelines shift. Opportunities emerge that nobody could have predicted at ...
Last week, Tammy Zonker, one of Capital Campaign Pro’s brilliant team members, spoke at the International Conference of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP ICON). In a conference filled with sessions on AI, her presentation on ...
In a recent Capital Campaign Pro group advising call, a longtime client (we’ll call her “Tanya”) brought a pretty routine conundrum to the discussion. Tanya is deep in her campaign’s quiet phase and explained that she had a $150,000 ...
As a capital campaign consultant, I've doled out lots of advice over the years. A few tips recur again and again. These are the tips that always seem fresh and pertinent and important. These tips are more about human nature than they are ...
If you or your leadership team are feeling hesitant to ask for gifts right now, you’re not alone. Economic uncertainty, global instability, and constant negative headlines can make it feel like the worst possible moment to fundraise. But ...
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