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Whether you’re in a small or mid sized organization, or part of a development team of one or 25, you are probably raising major gifts. But let me take a step back and address some common questions that I hear about major gifts.
We ask a lot of our board members, and we can’t expect them to succeed without the proper tools. One way to support their success is to focus on how board members can support your work in addition to donating—building relationships, opening doors, stewarding your current donors.
Each year, the pressure is on for development staff to be the one of few lucky nonprofits that makes it ahead. This is the time of year when the board starts emailing you success stories from other nonprofits’ Giving Tuesday campaigns and asking, “Why aren’t we doing this?”
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In busy development shops, it can feel like September is too early to be thinking about year-end giving. We’re still three months out! But this is actually the perfect time to start planning for your best year-end giving yet.
We’ve all heard about the leadership gap in the nonprofit sector since the pandemic began. Many EDs and Directors of Development have retired, moved industries, or been recruited away by a better offer. Instead of scrambling to launch a search when your next leader transitions, I recommend that nonprofit leaders start developing this talent internally.