The first 90 days of a campaign can make or break your results. Here’s how campaign leadership, a strong cabinet and a clear 90-day game plan build credibility, momentum and donor confidence from day one.
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4 Tips to Make the Most of Your Capital Campaign Gift Range Chart
A gift range chart is more than a table of numbers — it’s the backbone of your capital campaign. Here’s how to use your capital campaign gift range chart to set a realistic goal, engage your board and steward donors at every level.
Read MoreHow to Integrate Capital Campaigns Into General Fundraising Efforts and Marketing Initiatives
Effectively incorporating capital campaigns into your general marketing campaigns can inspire donors to contribute not only to specific projects but also to the overall mission of your organization. Let’s explore strategies to integrate this approach into your fundraising.
Read MoreTo Build or Not to Build? Is a Capital Campaign Right for Your Nonprofit?
One of the strongest indicators of whether a capital campaign to fund a large project will be successful is the nonprofit organization’s history of successful annual fundraising.
Read MoreCapital Campaigns Are Not Always the Solution
As nonprofits need to be good stewards of the funds from their donors, consulting companies also must do the same with the resources of their clients. A capital campaign is the easy answer, but there are other ways of accomplishing the goals you seek to achieve.
Read More3 Tips to Stay on Track With Your Capital Campaign
With a strong capital campaign plan, your team will have a better chance of staying on track. Explore three considerations to create (or revise) your plan.
Read MoreHonorary Chairs: A Must for Capital Campaign Success
Capital campaigns are hard. Through previous campaign knowledge, fundraising experience and professional knowledge of what each campaign entails, internal elements of the capital campaign puzzle are usually secure. Knowing how to do it utilizing a variety of complex pieces externally is another matter entirely.
Read More3 Ways to Ask Your Supporters for Help During COVID-19
You may think that with everyone navigating a new reality, which often requires copious amounts of time at home, you shouldn’t ask people to help you with your capital campaign. Or for that matter, with your fundraising.
Read MoreIt Is Time to Move Your Capital Campaign Forward?
In the last three months, I have talked to several colleagues experiencing a capital campaign pause. They felt they were on a cruise ship during COVID-19 and stuck in a harbor without being able to get off the ship.
Read MoreCapital Campaigns in the Perfect Storm
Capital campaigns are currently in a perfect storm. Like the weather, the elements that are currently affecting us will eventually go away. What you do at this moment will determine how ready you will be when it is truly “go” time.
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