Major Gifts

Social networking and major-gifts programs are made for each other. In this article, excerpted from a three-part series that I wrote for the Passionate Giving blog, I outline how your organization can best use social networking to enhance both your program and your major donor’s experience.

Listen in as some of fundraising's freshest thinkers take on some of the sector's toughest topics — the things that should be top of mind in the new year.

At the 2012 Bridge to Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference last month, three fundraising professionals shared essential leadership skills every major gifts team should have.

Nonprofit organizations, recognizing that their donors are what fuels their missions, want to make t

Here are four mistakes to avoid and three ideas to keep in mind when digging through your data to get those major gifts.

Would you treat one of your $100 donors differently if you knew he or she had given a $100,000 gift to another charity, and would you treat those donors differently if you knew there were 5,000 more just like them on your housefile?

In her session at Fund Raising Day in New York last month, Ann LaForge, director of institutional advancement at The Cathedral School of St. John the Divine, shared her "5 C's" strategy for success in cultivating major donors for a small shop nonprofit organization.

At Fundraising Day in New York, Mike Hoffman, chairman of Changing Our World, highlighted the critical role major gifts play in fundraising for nonprofit organizations and explored strategies for moving major-gift prospects through the moves-management continuum.

Poonam Prasad, founder and president of Prasad Consulting and Research, shared the "Top Ten Things Every Fundraiser Should Know About Major Donor Research" in her session at Fund Raising Day in New York earlier this month.

The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation has gotten a major boost toward completion of the National Museum of the Marine Corps. The foundation, which oversees the museum off Interstate 95 in Triangle, Va., announced Tuesday that it had received its biggest individual donation ever.

The $12 million gift came from the Timothy T. Day Foundation. Timothy Day, chairman and chief executive officer of Bar–S Foods in Arizona, is a former Marine.