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Comment on Precisely How to Conduct Your First Meeting with a Major Donor by James Martin on How to ACE Fundraising with a Mobile

Amy Eisenstein

Before we started live on the podcast, you were talking about texting before and after meeting with a donor. […] about both. Why don’t you talk more about that? I love that. I’m not sure that development […].

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Comment on Precisely How to Conduct Your First Meeting with a Major Donor by Leo Donaghy

Amy Eisenstein

Open ended questions work so well – thank you Amy.

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12 Elements To Help Conduct Your Mid-Year Nonprofit Tune Up

Bloomerang

A car represents a major investment, and timely service and maintenance ensures the best return on that investment. Here are 12 elements to consider for conducting a mid-year nonprofit tune up to diagnose and make improvements that will drive up the gift income that is so essential in carrying out your mission.

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Major Donors: Who Are They and Where Do You Find Them?

Bloomerang

As a nonprofit fundraiser, you’ve probably heard some variation of the phrase, “treat every donor like a major donor.” If you treat every donor like a major donor, you’d probably run out of team member time. Plus, not all of your supporters want to be wined and dined like a major donor.

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How to Learn the Advanced Fundraising Skills Needed for Long Term Success as a Major Gift Officer

iMarketSmart

Major gifts fundraising is a job that requires an advanced set of skills. Russell James, who has conducted decades of research and experiments in major gifts fundraising and won numerous awards for his work, there is one goal that gift officers must pursue with donors, above all others: Help the donor advance their hero story.

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How Enhancing a Donor’s Moral Identity Can Advance their Donor Hero Story

iMarketSmart

Effective fundraising can deliver real value to donors. Moral identity reflects how well one’s life matches one’s ideal values.[2] Moral identity reflects how well one’s life matches one’s ideal values.[2] Morality is a code of conduct. More precisely, it’s a pro-social code.[3] 1] But fundraising can do more.

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Fundraising Events: The 10-Step Guide to Planning Your Own

Fundraising Coach

It’s also what we’d hope to be true of our donors. That’s why, as fundraising professionals, it’s a large part of our job to entice donors and incentivize giving. And how do you entertain dozens or thousands of people at once? That wouldn’t help your organization or your donors. 100% altruism. What are our goals?