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Legacy Giving: Finding Your Best Prospects
This is probably the hardest part for most organizations around legacy gifts; who do we ask? Well, there is a bit of science to it and knowing a few key indicators that signal opportunities can help. In 2018 a comprehensive literature review done by Routley,...
Legacy Giving: Getting Started
Legacy giving is an investment It is useful right off the start to realize that a legacy gift is an investment, not a donation and investments are driven by trust and confidence. So, understand you need to take the time to gain a person’s trust and confidence in your...
Human Resources: The key to your strategy
The Fundraising Team Every organization structures its revenue development team or office differently. Yes, I know some of you are laughing right now because there is no team and more likely it’s a line item in someone’s job description; other duties as required....
Evaluation and Strategy: Good evaluation informs good strategy
I find strategy to be an interesting concept overall: what strategies we implement, how we make decisions about our strategy and my all-time favourite…no real strategy at all. Strategy is simply a plan of action designed to achieve a goal. The real question is, what...
Giving Analysis: What’s in the numbers?
Depending on what you’re tracking and looking at, giving data can provide a lot of insight into your donors. So much so, that there are data-mining services honed to find your best donors in a sea of donors and prospects. People often think this type of analysis is...
Organizational Fundraising Evaluations: It’s not just about the numbers
Organizational Evaluations Part of the process of good planning is evaluation and looking at what you’ve done in the past. It’s how we learn to improve and do things better. It’s no different in fundraising and donor giving data is one of the most tracked metrics in...
Communications Toolkit
Need some help with your communications? Check out my Communications Toolkit, part of the Stewardsip Plus program resources. In the kit you will find templates, examples, content creation tips and a basic schedule.
10 Ways to Increase Giving in Your Church
The secret to releasing significant resources is to surround the perspective donor with specific information and an environment that will generate the best response…or, preparing your donor to respond.
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