Capital Campaigns

For New York City-based Smile Train, the largest cleft organization in the world, its year-end efforts last year presented challenges, yet valuable lessons learned that it will utilize as it moves forward. The COVID-19 pandemic halted its work around the world, but it soon found its voice, urging supporters that its work is still needed. Now, capitalizing on last year’s fundraising success is vital...

NonProfit PRO asked two of its board members for their best advice on year-end giving. Here's how to avoid the biggest year-end fundraising mistakes from Paul D'Alessandro, founder of D'Alessandro Inc., and Tammy Zonker, founder of Fundraising Transformed...

Use these consultant-approved strategies to maximize your campaign’s chances of success.

Explore three considerations to create (or revise) your capital campaign plan.

Capital campaigns are hard. Internal elements of the capital campaign puzzle are usually secure, but complex external pieces are not.

You may think that with everyone navigating a new reality, you shouldn’t ask people to help you with your capital campaign.

In the last three months, I have talked to several colleagues experiencing a capital campaign pause.

Capital campaigns are currently in a perfect storm. Like the weather, the elements that are affecting us will eventually go away.

There are three macroeconomic factors that are all occurring, creating an opportunity for nonprofits to launch a capital campaign. 

The more attention you pay to other people, the more you notice about what they do and why they do it — the better your life is likely to be. In fundraising, that kind of careful attention and interest in what your donors love may well lead to some large, unexpected gifts.