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I challenge you…! When you read those three words didn’t you want to know what the challenge was? And weren’t you already wondering just a bit if you could win that challenge? We humans are wired to respond to challenge. And when ...
Leadership gifts, or lack of them, can make or break your capital campaign. Those are the top ten gifts on your donor pyramid (or gift range chart). Generally, those top ten gifts get you to approximately 50% (or more) of your campaign ...
One of the reasons capital campaigns help organizations raise enormous amounts of money (often 10 times normal fundraising revenue) is that there is specific strategy baked into campaign plans. Much of the strategy which is critical to ...
I’ve always wondered at the word “stewardship.” Merriam-Webster defines stewardship as: stewardship -- management of something entrusted to one’s care. But when I think of donors, I don’t really like to think about managing them. I prefer ...
If I were to give you just one tip about how to become a more effective fundraiser, it would be this: Listen more; talk less. Serious companies record sales calls to track the amount of talking the salesperson does as compared to the amount ...
I often refer to capital campaigns as major gift fundraising on steroids. Of course, capital campaigns are so much more than that. However, major gift fundraising is one critical component of all successful capital campaigns. Major gift ...
Campaign expert and Capital Campaign Pro advisor, Jeff Hensley, recently shared his thoughts on what to do when your donors start resenting being asked -- or even worse -- simply stop giving to your organization altogether. This is the ...
Major donors fuel capital campaigns. And when it comes to capital campaigns, three questions always pop up, again and again: Will our capital campaign cannibalize our annual fundraising? Should we include our annual fundraising in our ...
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