If you are the head of a nonprofit, we urge you to move away from using events to raise money. If you’re an MGO who continually gets “asked” to help with an event, do everything you can to convince your boss it’s a bad idea. And if you are a development director of a small nonprofit, you have to realize the best way to raise major gifts is to build relationships with donors and ask them directly to support your mission.
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The Agony of Recording Your Moves
If you can keep up-to-date and make sure your records are clean and have good information, it will help you and your organization cultivate, steward and solicit your donors in the proper way.
Read MoreManaging Up: 7 Tips to Get What You Need From Your Manager
We believe that managers actually need to manage their major-gifts officers. Sadly, the state of management in the nonprofit sector is sorely lacking. It’s just very rare to come across a good manager who really knows how to develop people.
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