Thank. Your. Donors.
A personal tale by Beth Upton of the time she said to a charity “don’t worry about thanking me” and then got cross when they listened to her and did not thank her. Always say thank you.
Failure to ask: a cautionary tale
I took a brief sabbatical at the end of 2015 – two months to step away from my life and experience some very different places, cultures, lifestyles. The trip was planned around a volunteering project where I’d get to ethically hangout with my all time top...How you can judge a major donor programme by a cup of tea
Here are a few tell-tale signs in assessing early on whether a major donor programme is likely to be successful.
What makes a great major donor fundraiser?
Key attributes we feel make up the (almost) perfect major donor fundraiser
How do you define a Major Gift?
How do you define a major gift? Is a commonly-asked question with the expectation of an arbitrary £ amount being the answer. But it might not be that simple if you take an effort/reward based approach to the answer, thus expending your resources wisely for the maximum return.
Engaging Major Donors well
Major Donor fundraising is not as tricky as you might think and it is the one way of fundraising that works regardless of your organisation’s size or cause area and it can be set up on a shoestring budget – as long as it done well. There is no charity that can afford to not consider this area of fundraising.