Creating and maintaining sustainability for your organization is something that takes time. Adding an effective major giving strategy to the bunch can help add fuel to the fire — however, this approach is also something that takes, you guessed it, time. When considering your list of past donors, it’s likely there are a number of …
A Cultivation Tool for Recruiting, Convincing Major Donors
Generosity is a key characteristic of a society with a successful and healthy nonprofit sector. On an individual level, nonprofits need to cultivate a varied portfolio for their funding plan in order to maintain a balanced budget. Just like you would not ask someone to marry you the first time you bump into them on …
After I Do: How to Keep Donors Giving Again
Anything that lasts requires time and attention. Your car won’t continue to run for years if you avoid oil changes. A house doesn’t stand for decades on end without proper attention and maintenance. Relationships, too, are more likely to stand the test of time when they exist in a nurturing environment where effort is put …
How to Secure More Large Gifts from Donors
As the saying goes, every dollar counts. Even still, your nonprofit organization is not going to reach a comfortable level of sustainability and growth without large gifts from individual and corporate donors. Securing dollars like this is part of a trust-building process between your organization and the donor — it’s not something that is going …
Tips On Purpose: Finding the Start of Passion
You’ve heard the stories before: an inventor and entrepreneur starts a project, working diligently in the wee hours of night — long after logging a full 9 to 5 for the day — to build a new product and launch a company to call their own. Companies like Apple and Amazon have been said to …