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03 Nov Fundraising Planning for 2016 – I Dream of Board Fundraising

Posted at 04:39h in Board Development, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Plans and Budgets, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Your major donor cultivation work is arguably the most important work of your year. Make sure you create space on the calendar to do it well. 1) Assign donor responsibility to board members. Let them choose their own donors within reason, but make sure...

27 Oct First Take – Fundraising Planning for 2016

Posted at 05:52h in Development Audit, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Foundations, Membership, Plans and Budgets, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

By November, you should have most of your fall fundraising pretty well dialed – hopefully, anyway. So now it’s time to start looking ahead to 2016. BEFORE your program people come to you asking if you can raise X or increase giving by Y%, here...

20 Oct Fall Appeal First Drop – (And Some Thoughts About Acknowledging In-Kind Contributions)

Posted at 05:45h in Communication, Development Audit, Featured, Plans and Budgets, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

OK, so as a practical matter, this is the last week you can drop the first letter of your Fall Appeal if you intend to drop three letters. (I actually prefer that the first letter get dropped in early October.) Mailing this early means that...

13 Oct Taking Stock – Q3

Posted at 04:19h in Board Development, Communication, Development Audit, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Foundations, Membership, Plans and Budgets, Staff Development, Uncategorized 1 Comment

The forecasting question is simply this: Given what I know right now about what foundations, corporations, and individuals have committed, and what I know right now about what requests are still out there, and what I know right now about the requests I will yet...

06 Oct Donor Appreciation Events

Posted at 04:24h in Board Development, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Plans and Budgets, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

What are you doing to show appreciation for your donors? I have helped many organizations create donor clubs and appreciation events. Here are some lessons I’ve learned along the way...

29 Sep Lapsed Members and Five-Wednesday Months

Posted at 05:18h in Board Development, Communication, Development Audit, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Are you keeping track of your lapsed members? This is one of those five-Wednesday months I referred to in April , which means it’s a good time to review where you are with your 2015 renewals. Looking back on all the individuals who gave you...

22 Sep Filing/Data Entry

Posted at 05:19h in Communication, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Many land trusts use Board members or other volunteers to write personal messages on select fall appeal letters. The note conveys that we all know this is a form letter, but at least one person is paying special attention to how you, in particular, respond....

15 Sep Good News

Posted at 05:43h in Board Development, Communication, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Staff Development, Uncategorized 0 Comments

From now until Christmas, everything you do with members and donors should be coordinated. And everything they see should appear coordinated as well....

10 Sep Getting the Most from your Fundraising Events

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

Getting the most out of your fall fundraising events - you want to capture as much information from the evening as possible. And to set it all up, you need to get organized now...

02 Sep Handwritten Letters

Posted at 06:05h in Board Development, Communication, Donor Cultivation, Featured, Membership, Plans and Budgets, Uncategorized 0 Comments

This year write your fundraising letters to your most important donors longhand. Actually make this a board activity with each board member writing 3-5 letters....

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