Capital Campaign Blog
The Winning Formula for Capital Campaign Success: Optimism + Analysis
Is there a formula for capital campaign success? Absolutely! Whether your campaign will be successful (or not) depends on your ability to have the courage to set big goals and then temper that unbridled optimism based...
Capital Campaign Timeline: 7 Steps to Lead a Successful Campaign
If you think about a capital campaign as one big, long, stressful project, it can feel overwhelming. But if you break it up into phases and steps, the entire project becomes so much more manageable. Thus, following a...
Use the Public Phase of Your Campaign to Energize Your Community
After a long and often arduous quiet phase, during which your campaign will raise 60% to 80% of your campaign goal, you will finally kick-off the public phase of your campaign. Prior to your campaign kick-off, you’ll...
Donor Discussion Guide: A Strategic Replacement for a Campaign Brochure
There it is in all its glossy glory: your campaign brochure. All shiny, colorful and artfully-designed, filled with carefully curated photos and your beautiful words. The campaign brochure can be a thing of beauty. But...
How to Announce Your Capital Campaign to the World
Ready to announce your capital campaign to the world? You might be. First, ask yourself these three questions: Can you see your campaign success right around the corner? Were your largest donors as generous as you had...
Creating a Capital Campaign Budget that Works: Quick Guide
When you think about fundraising costs, it’s important to consider ROI (return on investment). How much is “reasonable” to spend to raise a dollar? Depending on what type of fundraising you’re doing, the cost to raise...
Endowment, Planned Giving, and Capital Campaigns: A Winning Combination
My heart always sinks when an executive director tells me that they want to plan an endowment campaign to raise enough money so that they don’t have to raise money ever again. It’s just wrong-headed. An Endowment...
Making an In-House Capital Campaign Feasibility Study… Feasible
Traditional fundraising wisdom suggests that when it comes to campaign feasibility studies, there’s only one way for you to go: Hire an outside consultant to interview your best potential donors. However, Rachel...
Ready, Set… GO? The Puzzling Realities of Starting Your Capital Campaign
If you’re thinking about a capital campaign, you probably want to know how long it’s going to take. Eighteen months? Two years? Three years? Of course, in part, how long your campaign takes to complete largely depends...
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