Four Tips for an Effective Face-to-Face Meeting
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.
The Ask Amount For Your Fundraising Campaign
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.
Alumni Engagement is More Important than Alumni Participation
Higher education fundraising strategies: alumni engagement is more important than alumni participation.
It’s All About The Data
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 Proven Approach To Requesting Proposals For Fundraising
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.
3 Ways to Start Your Search for Fundraising Counsel
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.
Fundraising Experts Share Their Top Tips for Choosing Outside Counsel
How do you know what criteria you need to consider when selecting counsel? One of the best ways is to ask the experts!
Phillip Stone, Former President of Sweet Briar College
Giving Is Bad? NOT!!!
I was somewhat taken aback last month by a Washington Post book review of David Callahan’s THE GIVERS: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy In a New Gilded Age. (Callahan recently gave an interview on 1A with the AVP of the Rockefeller Foundation and the CEO of the Casey Foundation. You can hear the interview/discussion HERE.) TheRead More Giving Is Bad? NOT!!!
We May Have Dodged A Bullet, But The Arts Battle Wages On…
The last few months, my inbox has been inundated with messages for many organizations that I care for deeply. Their message was clear: if you care about the arts and humanities in America, let your elected officials know that you oppose cutting the national budgets that support the arts, creativity and human endeavors.
