by Tony Poderis | | Campaign Planning, Capital Campaigns, Endowment Campaigns, Funding Sources & Donors, Trustees & Volunteers |
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...
by Tony Poderis | | Endowment Campaigns, Fundraising Policies & Practices |
Is there a “standard” or “industry” percentage ratio of our endowment funds—funds working to provide annual income—which can relate that corpus/principal amount to key financial statements such as the annual expense budget, operating deficit, ...
by Tony Poderis | | Endowment Campaigns, Fundraising Policies & Practices |
Whether you already have some form or endowment or are about to embark on your first endowment campaign (see the article Endowment Funds Go on Forever But an Endowment Campaign Should Not ) you need to be ready, willing, and able to steward your endowment funds and...
by Tony Poderis | | Endowment Campaigns |
How do we begin to set a goal? You first set a “target” goal, based on what you must accept as very loose factors; those being the changing rates of interest (meaning changing amounts of future income), the sliding scale of actual endowment funds at work...
by Tony Poderis | | Endowment Campaigns |
There comes a time in an endowment campaign when the initial urgency of the need inherent in the campaign’s case for support begins to fade. The excitement of the kickoff, anticipation of success as the personal solicitations begin, the first promising...
by Tony Poderis | | Capital Campaigns, Endowment Campaigns, Membership, Sponsorship & Underwriting Campaigns |
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...
