A current TCG campaign client, the Methow Conservancy, put a big challenge out to its community this summer. It wasn’t the typical fundraising challenge, where raising a certain dollar amount would unlock a challenge award. This was the Every Donor Counts Challenge. The Methow Conservancy’s Imagine the Methow Campaign received a $100,000 challenge from a [...]
Yesterday I attended a fundraising revival of sorts, the second annual AFP Major Gifts Symposium in Seattle. Along with 300+ fundraising professionals, trustees, and CEOs, I was challenged to refresh my thinking about donor stewardship in the context of creating a philanthropic environment that supports successful major gifts fundraising. That environment, keynote speaker Karen Osborne [...]
The role of social media in nonprofits is getting an enormous amount of attention these days. Without a doubt networking tools enable your organization to build a level of awareness previously unimaginable (and prohibitively expensive). However, just like the ability to “friend” hundreds of people in our personal lives can blur the boundaries of deep vs. casual [...]
Check out this video of Collins Group President & CEO Aggie Sweeney discussing strategies to help your organization become the top priority for your donors. Movie Mondays: How to Get Donors to Make You Their Top Charity Like what you saw? Visit www.501videos.com to subscribe to Movie Mondays (it’s free!). Each weekly video features a [...]
Check out the Pennisula Daily News’s story on Northwest Maritime Center’s compass rose created by donor pavers. A beautiful, lasting, and organization-appropriate way to thank donors to their campaign. http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009307289995
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