As year-end giving heats up, here’s a handy list of major giving tips to help make this overwhelming time more manageable and successful.
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How to Transition Out of Your Fundraising Role
On average, fundraisers are moving from one nonprofit to another every two to three years. This disruption can either be a good transition or a disaster, depending on how you plan for it. Here is some advice on transitioning your caseload to another major gifts officer.
Read More15 Questions to Go Deeper with Your Donor
To be a great major gifts officer, you must be curious about your donors. Your job is to understand the things that matter to them and why. So, here are some practical questions that will help unlock your donor’s passions and interests.
Read MoreHow to Use a News Story to Support Your Major Gift Ask
Below is a perfect example from our colleague Diana Frazier on how she advised a major gift officer to use a news story to support a major gift ask. I am going to explain exactly how it happened so you can copy the idea for your situation.
Read MoreWhat’s Wrong With These Definitions?
We believe a focus on helping donors fulfill their passions and interests through the organization is a far better approach, because it has you, as the major gift officer, treating the donor as a partner versus a source of cash.
Read MoreHow a Director of Development Thanked His Major Gift Officers
We are constantly asking directors of development to encourage and thank their major gift officers — something that doesn’t happen enough. If you are a director of development, and you have major gift officers under your care, take note of how one DOD thanked his MGOs.
Read MoreIf a Major Gift Officer Changes Jobs… and Takes Donors With Them
Donor assets are like pure gold for an organization. If you were to place a value on each one, just based on the cost to acquire and cultivate them, the resulting number would shock you. That is why donor lists and donor relationships, which belong to the organization, need to stay in the organization’s control.
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