Empowering strategies and tools for fundraising success
The Development Assessment: Charting Your Roadmap to Peak Fundraising Success
Feeling like your organization isn't raising all the money it "should be"? You're not alone. A development assessment can illuminate your precise roadmap for growth. Learn how to perform one (or hire me to expertly audit your fundraising org for you).
Which Key Performance Indicators Really Drive Major Gifts and Performance (and Why I Hate Most Frontline Fundraiser Metrics)?
Your top goals as a manager of fundraisers are to drive deeper donor commitment to your organization, bring in impactful dollars to support your community and programs, and grow and retain talented fundraisers. So how do you set up metrics with you gift officers that actually measure and produce those results?
Why Should You Donate by Fiscal Year End?: Messaging that Actually Motivates Donors
Struggling to motivate donors for fiscal year-end giving? Communicate the “why now” to drive donations by June 30 by messaging the life-changing difference donors will make for our students the incoming school year.
Streamlining Donor Qualification: Utilize This Powerful Discovery Visit Question…
If you are struggling to quickly qualify who your true prospective major gift donors are from your first visit with them, all you really need to ask is one essential high-impact question… the “continuum question.”
Does a $10 Donation Really Matter? Showing Donors Their Tangible Impact
How can we show donors that their annual fund gifts of all sizes make a difference, especially when tuition costs are so high? Let’s take a page from successful non-profits’ playbooks and apply it to benefit your educational institution with real-life examples for you to share with your prospects and donors.
9 Ways to Give Thanks to Your Donors this Holiday Season
This holiday season, let's make our donors feel truly valued. By implementing these strategies, you can cultivate deeper relationships, inspire donor retention, increase future giving, and create a lasting impact.
7 Steps to Create Individualized Stewardship Plans: Your Pathway to Transformational Gifts (Free Template Included)
What would you do if you lost your top 10 donors tomorrow? Having a personalized retention strategy is paramount. Included is a template for a 12-month set of customized and strategic set of engagement steps — an Individualized Stewardship Plan — all customized around what matters most to the donor and the impact they are making through your institution.