The following is an excerpt from our class How to Find New Major Donors and Get Them to Give to Your Non-Profit. Who qualifies as a major donor prospect for …
Guest Post by K. Michael Johnson You need big donors… who doesn’t? Sure, you have some… but to truly fulfill your mission, you know you need more. So, where are they …
I want to tell you a quick story about a donor I worked with several years ago while I was on the staff of a non-profit. This person was a …
Every non-profit I have ever come across wants to find more major donors to support its work. How can an organization find, cultivate, and ask major donors for large gifts, …
Sometimes, non-profit fundraisers treat opening the organization’s mail like playing the lottery. We know it’s highly unlikely that there’s a big check in one of those envelopes, yet we gleefully …
Endowment gifts, capital campaigns, and planned giving asks usually revolve around using one-on-one asks to seek major gifts from prospects. In order to ask for – and receive – large …
You probably think the title of this article is a come-on. That there’s no way this post could actually be about a meatball, or perhaps you think that it may …
Far too often, non-profits get to a certain point with their major donor fundraising and then let it “coast.” Don’t make that mistake — constantly working on raising the bar …
It’s easy to get flustered when pursuing major donor prospects for your non-profit, particularly if the prospect represents the possibility of raising a significant portion of your fundraising budget in …
Fundraising is all about relationships. Whether you’re talking about an online donor who makes a $25 gift to your organization, a married couple that donates $100 each year to your …
If your non-profit is targeting major donors (individual or corporate), you know that major donor fundraising takes patience, cultivation, and lots of prospects to eventually produce major gifts. The major …
Successful non-profit organizations need to build deep and sustainable relationships with their prospects. Doing so requires a system — fundraisers that meet new donors and make asks without a plan …
Many non-profits, particularly smaller churches, schools, and charities, believe that all they need to succeed is for that one (or two… or three…) major donors to come knocking and fund …
