Capital Campaign Resources
Two Must-Have Skills for a Successful Capital Campaign
A capital campaign is a long rollercoaster ride. It’s likely to take two or three years. You can be the most prepared organization around and still, you, your staff and your board will be pushed beyond what’s...
6 Pro-Tips to Solicit Board Members for Capital Campaign Gifts
It’s common for organizations to wrestle with how to ask their board members for capital campaign gifts. It can be a dicey subject! Too often people solicit their board members at a board meeting by handing out pledge...
Ready for a Capital Campaign? That Depends on Your Top Donors
Are You Ready for a Campaign? Test Yourself! Open a blank document. Without looking at your CRM or other donor lists make a list of the ten people who are likely to make the lead gifts to your campaign. They might be...
3 Ways to Prevent Your Capital Campaign from Cannibalizing Your Annual Fund
Are you afraid your capital campaign will gobble up your annual fund? You're probably worrying that when people give gifts to your campaign, they won’t want to make their regular gifts to your annual fund. As you head...
5 Capacity Building Opportunities for Your Capital Campaign
Raising money year in, year out for on-going operations feels like a slog. I get it. Every year, you raise your goal by the deadline and then, the next day you start again back at 0. It's essentially starting from...
What’s in a Capital Campaign Plan? 11 Essential Elements to Consider
If your boss asked you to put together a plan for your organization’s upcoming capital campaign, would you know what to include? Probably not. Why? For decades, organizations have relied on capital campaign consultants...
Podcast: 4 Questions to Ask BEFORE You Start a Capital Campaign
The Capital Campaign Toolkit was recently featured on the Nothing But Major Gifts podcast by the Veritus Group. Today’s post includes highlights from that podcast in the form of four questions to ask BEFORE you start...
2 Alternatives to Traditional Feasibility Studies for Your Capital Campaign
Feasibility studies are an important part of any capital campaign. The purpose of a feasibility study is to evaluate your plan and goal with your largest donors to determine whether they are realistic and feasible. The...
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,...
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