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07 Jul Fall Appeal Planning

Posted at 04:23h in Communication, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Plans and Budgets, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

For many organizations, as much as seventy percent of operations funding is raised in the fall, and a healthy percentage of that comes from the fall appeal campaign. Planning NOW will help you get the most from your campaign and will help you from going...

03 Jun Plan the Board HandWriting Event for August

Posted at 05:46h in Board Development, Communication, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Plans and Budgets, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Donor clubs are a perfect group to solicit using a letter that is entirely written longhand. If you want to mail these letters in late September or early October – which would be ideal – you need to have the letters written in August. And...

19 May Taking Stock

Posted at 05:37h in Board Development, Communication, Development Audit, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Plans and Budgets, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

There’s a problem with measuring your year in twelfths. It works for expenses like rent, which is the same each month. But it doesn’t work for insurance which sits at 0% of budget until the month it’s due and then zooms all the way to...

12 May Donor Event Planning

Posted at 05:32h in Board Development, Communication, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Donor events can take many forms, from field trips to coffees or luncheons, house parties, open houses at the office, and so on. In general, I separate them functionally as follows: Introductory Event, Cultivation Events, and Appreciation Events....

21 Apr Donor Screening

Posted at 05:40h in Board Development, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

We’re looking for rich people who already know us and understand why what we’re doing is important. And on whatever economic scale our current supporters represent, we’re looking for the top 10 percent (or so)....

14 Apr Renewing Lapsed Members

Posted at 15:37h in Board Development, Communication, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

If you organize your work around weekly systems, you end up with months like this one – April – with five Wednesdays instead of just four. (We also have five-Wednesday months in July, September, and December this year.) I suggest you have a plan for...

31 Mar Donor Strategies: Good News, Save the Date

Posted at 05:59h in Board Development, Communication, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Staff Development, Uncategorized 1 Comment

The most persistent barrier to successful major gift fundraising is that board members do not know the donors and donors don’t know the board. Two underused strategies for overcoming those barriers are Good News and Save the Date events....

24 Mar Researching Foundation/Corporate Grants and Calendaring Due Dates

Posted at 05:23h in Board Development, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Foundations, Plans and Budgets, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Let’s nominate April as “Foundation Month” – the month where you lay out all your plans for the next twelve months related to foundations and corporate foundations....

27 Jan Do You Say Thank You Enough?

Posted at 05:49h in Board Development, Communication, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

I once read that organizations should thank their donors seven times. How do you even do that? Here are some ideas to get you thinking:...

20 Jan Board Evaluations, Board Campaigns

Posted at 05:37h in Board Development, Communication, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Plans and Budgets, Uncategorized 2 Comments

Fundraiser’s Almanac: January Happy New Year! For 2015, I am creating a week-by-week guide to organizing a fundraising program. My ambition is to provide strategic ideas for approaching your work more so than providing some kind of overlay to what you might be doing already. Some of...

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