Capital Campaign Blog
Capital Campaign Resources, Tips, Tools and FAQ for Board Members
If you’re headed into a capital campaign, it’s likely your board members are anxious. For starters, they’ll want to know how much they’ll need to give. And whether they’ll need to help raise the funds. Knowledge is...
Post-Campaign Follow-Through: What You Must Do in the Final Phase
Capital campaigns are like icebergs. Most of the work is invisible. It happens quietly, behind the scenes, long before the campaign becomes public and long after you’ve celebrated success. In my experience, most...
Capital Campaign Basics: A 7-Step Checklist for Capital Campaigns
Capital Campaigns can be complicated and overwhelming. But they don’t have to be! When considering a campaign, you’re likely planning to raise the largest amount your organization has ever tried to raise. That’s scary....
4 Ways to Use Challenge Gifts to Cure Capital Campaign Woes
I challenge you…! When you read those three words didn’t you want to know what the challenge was? And weren’t you already wondering just a bit if you could win that challenge? We humans are wired to respond to...
Overcome Your Fear of Asking for Leadership Capital Campaign Gifts
Leadership gifts, or lack of them, can make or break your capital campaign. Those are the top ten gifts on your donor pyramid (or gift range chart). Generally, those top ten gifts get you to approximately 50% (or more)...
Is a Successful Capital Campaign in Your Future? Free Assessments
Some campaigns just seem destined for success. One thing after another goes well. For example: Right off the bat, board members agree on what the campaign is going to raise money for. Excellent people agree to serve in...
6 Simple Steps to Supercharge Your Year-End Giving, Campaign-Style
One of the reasons capital campaigns help organizations raise enormous amounts of money (often 10 times normal fundraising revenue) is that there is specific strategy baked into campaign plans. Much of the strategy...
Donor Happiness: An Integral Part of Capital Campaign Fundraising
I’ve always wondered at the word “stewardship.” Merriam-Webster defines stewardship as: stewardship -- management of something entrusted to one’s care. But when I think of donors, I don’t really like to think about...
How to Become a (Much) More Effective Fundraiser
If I were to give you just one tip about how to become a more effective fundraiser, it would be this: Listen more; talk less. Serious companies record sales calls to track the amount of talking the salesperson does as...
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