Fundraising Planning

12 Nov

Posted at 10:05h in Donor Cultivation, Donor Stewardship, Fundraising Planning, Major Gift Fundraising

  12 November 2019   By David Allen, Development for Conservation   Major gift development isn’t hard. It’s a discipline. And it’s scalable. So just start. Let movement create momentum and let momentum create habit. It starts in January, and it could start for you in January 2020. You can do this for ten donors....

01 Oct

Posted at 06:56h in Fundraising Planning

  By David Allen, Development for Conservation   For many organizations, Fall is the time for planning and budgeting (which doesn’t really work out so well for fundraisers who need to be busy raising money!). The default seems to be starting with assumptions about what WE did last...

30 Jul

Posted at 05:48h in Fundraising Planning

  By David Allen, Development for Conservation   High summer is generally regarded as a good time for taking stock. How are we doing related to our annual goals? Are we on track to finish the year successfully? If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, will we...

30 Oct

Posted at 06:15h in Fundraising Planning

  By David Allen, Development for Conservation   Things would be so different if they were not as they are. - Anna Russell   Jeff Brooks posted a guest blog by Christiana Stergiou speculating on the unquantifiable – opportunity costs. An “opportunity cost” is the amount of money we leave behind...

09 Oct

Posted at 06:04h in Fundraising Planning

  By David Allen, Development for Conservation   Whether we understand and acknowledge it, or not, we all have an interesting relationship with neuroscience, neurolinguistics, and neurolinguistic programming. These terms describe the possibility that how human beings react to certain decision-making triggers can be studied and understood. Many of...

05 Jun

Posted at 06:08h in Fundraising Planning

This implies that once someone has been “assigned” to a segment, they stay there for at least this year. To be most helpful, your database system should be able to handle this level of complexity – the segments to which prospects are assigned based on...