Major Gifts fundraising traditionally provides the largest amount of fundraising dollars for an organization. With a capital campaign and most of our traditional major gifts cultivation techniques we are seeking to get the largest gift that we can from our wealthiest donors. I wonder if there might be a different way.
Think about the number of [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Major Gifts or Middle Giving
April 29, 2010 – 2:06 am
Featured Fundraiser: Sarah Kaiser
April 27, 2010 – 12:42 am
This month’s Featured Fundraiser is Sarah Kaiser. If you ever would like to nominate someone for Feature Fundraiser just send me an email. - Jason
What kind of fundraising do you do and who do you do it for?
I am one of two Donor Relations Managers at the National MS Society, Greater Northwest Chapter. [...]
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Ending the Problem
April 21, 2010 – 10:54 pm
This may sound a little bit pessimistic so if I upset you with this post, please leave a comment or send me an email. This is a bit of a follow-up post to yesterday’s Endowment Giving post.
It bothers me when we talk about “ending poverty” or “ending hunger”. I think these are great things to [...]
Endowment Giving
April 19, 2010 – 10:43 pm
What kind of message does having an endowment give? I was recently at a development conference and one of the speakers said that an endowment is a message to your donors that you are not funding the solution of a problem; that we should be running our nonprofits with the goal of putting ourselves out [...]
Social Actions Widget
April 14, 2010 – 9:03 pm
If you have not heard of Social Actions you should check them out. They are a group of innovative leaders in online social change, focused on pushing the edge of what can be done online and creating new opportunities to help nonprofits succeed.
One project they have going is a widget that promotes “social actions” [...]
