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The Winning Formula for Capital Campaign Success: Optimism + Analysis

The Winning Formula for Capital Campaign Success: Optimism + Analysis

By Andrea Kihlstedt

Is there a formula for capital campaign success?  Absolutely! Whether your campaign will be successful (or not) depends on your ability to have the courage to set big goals and then temper that unbridled optimism based on clear headed ...

Filed Under: Campaign Planning, Major Gifts, Quiet Phase

Capital Campaign Stalled Out? 3 Ways to Regain Momentum

Capital Campaign Stalled Out? 3 Ways to Regain Momentum

By Andrea Kihlstedt

Has your capital campaign stalled? Does progress feel slow or strained? Perhaps your early numbers looked great, with a million-dollar commitment and a couple of other whopping big gifts. You may have raised half of your campaign goal or ...

Filed Under: Campaign Planning, General Campaign, Quiet Phase

4 Ways to Use Challenge Gifts to Cure Capital Campaign Woes

4 Ways to Use Challenge Gifts to Cure Capital Campaign Woes

By Andrea Kihlstedt

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 ...

Filed Under: General Campaign, Major Gifts, Quiet Phase

Overcome Your Fear of Asking for Leadership Capital Campaign Gifts

Overcome Your Fear of Asking for Leadership Capital Campaign Gifts

By Amy Eisenstein

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 ...

Filed Under: Major Gifts, Quiet Phase

4 Strategies for Year-End Fundraising During a Capital Campaign

4 Strategies for Year-End Fundraising During a Capital Campaign

By Amy Eisenstein

Coordinating annual fundraising and capital campaign fundraising can feel like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. But it doesn’t need to be that complicated. In fact, capital campaign fundraising and annual fund go hand-in-hand. ...

Filed Under: General Campaign, Public Phase, Quiet Phase

The Future of Fundraising: AI and Capital Campaigns

The Future of Fundraising: AI and Capital Campaigns

By Amy Eisenstein

In the digital age, tools like artificial intelligence can completely change how your nonprofit conducts campaigns. Learn more with this crash course on AI. This is a guest post by Tim Paris, Co-Founder of Dataro. The Future of ...

Filed Under: Data & AI, General Campaign, Public Phase, Quiet Phase

Attention Campaign Consultants: Redefine a SUCCESSFUL Capital Campaign

Attention Campaign Consultants: Redefine a SUCCESSFUL Capital Campaign

By Andrea Kihlstedt

Do you ever look back on your life so far and wish you had been more courageous? Do you wonder what you might have accomplished if you had just gone for more? Today’s post is something of a confession. I come clean about a personal regret ...

Filed Under: Campaign Planning, Quiet Phase

6 Steps to Take If Your Capital Campaign is Falling Short of its Goal

6 Steps to Take If Your Capital Campaign is Falling Short of its Goal

By Amy Eisenstein

If you're worried that your capital campaign is going to fall short of its goal, you are not alone! We’ve written about calming campaign anxieties before and the idea of not making your campaign goal is at the top of the ...

Filed Under: General Campaign, Public Phase, Quiet Phase

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