It’s over. The campaign is finished. The thank-you’s have been said and the money counted. However, before closing the book on a campaign for good, you should take one last look at it. The days immediately following a campaign are the time to analyze what went wrong and what went right, which fixes worked and [...]
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by Tony Poderis · Leave a Comment
Filed under: After the campaign
Social Tagging: Development Department Retreat • Kickoff Meeting • Kickoff Meeting Effective • Note Additional • Progress Meetings
Filed under: After the campaign
Social Tagging: Development Department Retreat • Kickoff Meeting • Kickoff Meeting Effective • Note Additional • Progress Meetings
by Tony Poderis · 2 Comments
Filed under: After the campaign
Social Tagging: Cleveland Orchestra • donor • NPO • planning
Filed under: After the campaign
Social Tagging: Cleveland Orchestra • donor • NPO • planning
What Do You Know About Your Donors and What Do They Know About Your Organization? If we’re going to ask people for money, it sure helps if they think highly of both our organization and its mission. Do they see our mission as vital and valid? Are we perceived as being successful at carrying out [...]
by Tony Poderis · 4 Comments
Filed under: Sources & prospects
Social Tagging: Cleveland Orchestra • donor • foundations • planning
Filed under: Sources & prospects
Social Tagging: Cleveland Orchestra • donor • foundations • planning
What a Major Giver is How to find them What you need to have in place before conducting a Major Gifts Campaign Your organization needs money. Big money. The kind of money you can’t raise by going out and asking for donations of $10, $20, $100, or perhaps even $1,000. Maybe you need the money [...]
We read in all of the right publications and we are told by the experts that a non-profit organization’s mission statement should be contained on the back of a business card, declared in as few words as possible on the organization’s letterhead, etc.—and even, as a national authority states, fit on a T-shirt. Because such [...]
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Filed under: Organizing campaigns
Social Tagging: donor • endowment campaign • planning
Filed under: Organizing campaigns
Social Tagging: donor • endowment campaign • planning
A capital campaign raises money that will be spent to acquire or improve a physical asset. The most common use of a capital campaign is for the purchase, construction, or renovation of a building (commonly referred to as “bricks and mortar”). However, an organization can conduct a capital campaign to purchase machinery, equipment, furniture, fixtures, [...]
by Tony Poderis · 2 Comments
Filed under: Fund-raising planning
Social Tagging: Cleveland Orchestra • donor • Telly Savalas • TV
Filed under: Fund-raising planning
Social Tagging: Cleveland Orchestra • donor • Telly Savalas • TV
You start the process of becoming a fund-raiser for an organization when you first become involved with the organization. That’s when you begin to acquire knowledge about an organization, and acquisition of knowledge is the first step in preparing to raise money. To sell any product, it is important to know just what the product [...]
“For Want Of A Kit A Campaign Was Lost?” A little neglect may breed mischief: “For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the rider was lost; for want of a rider, the battle was lost.” B. Franklin: Poor Richard’s [...]
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Filed under: Sources & prospects
Social Tagging: Cleveland Orchestra • donor • foundations • grant
Filed under: Sources & prospects
Social Tagging: Cleveland Orchestra • donor • foundations • grant
No one would argue the fact that every fund-raising campaign needs a goal and that everyone connected with the campaign, including prospective donors, needs to be aware of that goal. Then why do people so often fight the setting of a goal for each prospective donor and sharing that goal with the prospect? Trustees often [...]
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Filed under: Managing campaigns
Social Tagging: Capital Campaigns • donor • endowment campaign
Filed under: Managing campaigns
Social Tagging: Capital Campaigns • donor • endowment campaign
In the nonprofit world, when it comes to “memberships,” we seem to be of two minds. On the one hand are memberships that convey benefits in exchange for a fee, and on the other, those that recognize donors for gifts made. Fee-Based Memberships In fee-based memberships, a patron of The Metropolis Museum can “join” that [...]
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Filed under: Fund-raising planning
Social Tagging: Canada • North America • United Kingdom
Filed under: Fund-raising planning
Social Tagging: Canada • North America • United Kingdom
Introduction I have presented fund-raising workshops in many countries outside North America during a professional career of more than 35 years. I have also presented fund-raising workshops to numerous foreign visitors in the United States who were representing charities in their respective countries. In every case, the people who attended my workshops came from nations [...]
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