Category: Opportunity & Delivery
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Donors For Life: How You Hear Them
Don Keel and I offered a seminar on January 12, 2022, to talk about the issue of donors and how to understand their motivations when giving to a charity. Motivations are related to the strong support of a cause; emotional support due to services rendered by the charity, prestige through arts groups or even engineering…
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High Performance: Moving From Chaos to Control
How important is the information your charity uses to sustain itself? The information we refer to is found in donor gifts and interactions, funding research and grants, sponsorships and planned gifts. This information is an asset. We can add to this asset by including all the tools that an organization builds to perform its fundraising…
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Treating your Donors like Customers
Fundraising has become very much a business and if it hasn’t become a business at your site, it may be time to reconsider. A charity is a business that offers a product or service that a customer can purchase. Ultimately, what when I am a customer I take home the sense that I have made…
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Knowledge Management for Better Fund Development Results
Fundraisers OD! Fundraising is all about money. It is identifying an opportunity and orchestrating a successful delivery. If you keep the relationship between opportunity and delivery simple, it is easy to see what is important, if you want your fund development program to be successful. Opportunities come in many forms. Most are the result of…
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Knowledge-based Fund Development
Opportunity and Delivery … Let’s OD! Fundraising is all about opportunity. Whether it is raising more money or promoting a charity, successful fund development involves identifying an opportunity and marrying it with cost effective delivery. Knowledge-based fund development looks at how to build opportunity and record the findings so you can act when the time…