Posts by Andrea Kihlstedt
How to Recruit Volunteers to Help with Your Capital Campaign
Successful capital campaigns use lots of volunteers. Volunteers serve as campaign chairs, on the steering committee and on a host of other ad hoc committees that help with specific aspects of the campaign. Yesterday,...
Making Sense of Endowment Funding and Capital Campaigns
Let’s get this clear right off the bat... most money that goes into endowment comes from planned gifts. And most of that is in the form of simple bequests rather than complex financial instruments. If you want to build...
Capital Campaign Communications: More Than the Case for Support
The first thing you probably think you need for your campaign is the case for support. If you’re like many people, you think your case is a glossy brochure. In fact, you may fervently hope that you can create a...
Don’t Let Your Capital Campaign Cannibalize Your Annual Fund
What do you think is the most common worry board members have when they are considering a capital campaign? If what came to your mind was the worry that a capital campaign would cannibalize their fundraising for...
Endowment and Your Capital Campaign: How Big Should Your Endowment Be?
Most capital campaigns include an endowment component in the money they want to raise. And discussions about endowment often lead people to ask the question: How Big of an Endowment Should Your Organization Have?...
An Essential Chart for Tracking Sources of Funds and Uses of Funds
If you’re embarking on a building project, chances are excellent that you will be exploring multiple sources of funding for your project -- only one of which is a capital campaign. Multiple Sources of Project Funding...
A Simple, Powerful Way to Keep Your Board and Committees Informed
The Capital Campaign Toolkit provides virtual expert advising to organizations planning for and executing capital campaigns. In our role as Campaign Advisors, we work with all kinds of organizations -- theatre...
Don’t Wait for the Perfect Ask: Approach Your Big Campaign Donors Early
Are you getting ready for a capital campaign? If so, here’s an important idea you need to know that may make all of the difference between a successful campaign and one that is lackluster or even falls short of its...
Do Capital Campaigns Hurt or Strengthen Major Gifts?
Some people worry that major gifts will suffer in the years after a capital campaign. But it’s simply not true! Remember, very few things move in simple straight lines. That’s true of human motivation, growth patterns...
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