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) of your campaign goal. If you don’t receive one...
4 Strategies for Year-End Fundraising During a Capital Campaign
Coordinating annual fundraising and capital campaign fundraising can feel like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. But it doesn’t need to be that complicated. In fact, capital campaign fundraising and annual fund go hand-in-hand. And when done well, your...
The Future of Fundraising: AI and Capital Campaigns
In the digital age, tools like artificial intelligence can completely change how your nonprofit conducts campaigns. Learn more with this crash course on AI. This is a guest post by Tim Paris, Co-Founder of Dataro. The Future of Fundraising: AI and Capital Campaigns By...
Attention Campaign Consultants: Redefine a SUCCESSFUL Capital Campaign
Do you ever look back on your life so far and wish you had been more courageous? Do you wonder what you might have accomplished if you had just gone for more? Today’s post is something of a confession. I come clean about a personal regret — one that I hope you...
Converse with Your Donors through the Amazing Power of Improvisation
Have you ever taken an improv class? I know it’s an unlikely suggestion, but if you’re in the donor relations part of fundraising, you’d learn a ton of transferable skills. Because the best conversation is always improvised. Have you ever had a really good, deep,...
