The final stage – notifying candidates of your decision – appears obvious. However, in their eagerness to begin work with the firm they’ve selected, some organizations fail to do a good job of notifying firms who were not selected.

Successful major gift solicitations, hiring a winning job candidate, and selecting the right fundraising counsel all have one thing in common:  a face-to-face meeting works best.

Best practices dictate that a solicitation includes an ask for a specific amount. How do organizations determine the correct amount? This is a question that is raised repeatedly in every campaign and frequently in annual giving programs with personal, face-to face solicitations.

Higher education fundraising strategies: alumni engagement is more important than alumni participation.

In many development offices around the country, there are discussions concerning the need to clean up data in fundraising systems.  Donors are frequently “lost,” or at the very least offended, when data is misused or inaccurate.

The most important and first step for an organization is to determine what they need. Getting a good proposal is about knowing how to put together a request for proposal.

The first task is to identify a pool of firms to begin the selection process.  There are a number of resources for identifying firms, but before you start looking, you need to decide what you are looking for.

How do you know what criteria you need to consider when selecting counsel?  One of the best ways is to ask the experts!