Capital Campaigns #3: Quick Checklist for Readiness
Being “ready” for a Capital Campaign does not mean that the CEO and/or Board/Staff members…
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Capital Campaigns – Part #2: What They’re Not
• A capital campaign is not a “fundraiser.” It is as far beyond a dinner…
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Capital Campaigns – Part #1: What They Are
This series of postings (don’t know yet how many will be in the series) is…
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Fundraising/Development: “It’s Easy, Anyone Can Do It”
I received an email the other day, from a fellow who identified himself as someone…
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Corporation Solicitation Programs: The Process -Part 3
Keeping in mind that only about 5% of all non-governmental giving to nonprofits comes from…
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Corporation Solicitation Programs – Part 2 of 3: Not For Every Nonprofit
In considering the creation of a corporate solicitation program (a CSP), the first questions I’d…
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Corporation Solicitation Programs – Part 1 of 3: Consultant Compensation
A thread in a listserve in which I participate addressed the question(s) of Creating-and-Implementing and…
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Asking For The Major Gift – Part 3 of 3
There is a simple, but not simplistic, description of what major gift fundraising is all…
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Asking For The Major Gift – Part 2 of 3
Raising money from wealthy people is not the same as asking buddies at work to…
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Asking For The Major Gift – Part 1 of 3
One of the things I find most frustrating about teaching classes in fundraising is the…
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Evaluating Your Major Gifts Prospects
Too many people (NPO board members, volunteers and staff) believe that “Evaluation” means determining what…
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How to Use The Gift Table
Gift Tables (also known as Gift Pyramids) are great fundraising tools for capital campaigns, major…
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Constructing The Gift Table
“Hank,” the email said, “can you send me a gift pyramid that my organization can…
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Cultivating Major Donors
There are two categories of donor cultivation: the education about and the involvement in the…
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Leadership for a Major Gifts Program: Part Two
A Major Gifts Program’s Leadership: Part Two Once your Major Gifts Committee has created its…
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Leadership for a Major Gifts Program (Part 1 of 2)
The most critical factor in creating a MG Program is the availability and willingness of…