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Let it Go: When to Move on from a Major Gift Prospect

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There are three major exits you can take on the “Highway of Major Gift Giving.” Exit 1: Disqualification Road Exit 2: Proposal Avenue Exit 3: The Stewardship Fork Once you know what road you’re on with a potential donor, you can decide to press the gas or to let it go and move on to a better-fit major gift prospect. Action : Let it go.

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Top 6 Reasons to Focus on Recurring Donations for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Even though monthly donors generally give smaller amounts on a per gift basis, the aggregate amount that they give over the course of a year almost always adds up to more. Revenue from recurring donations is far more predictable than revenue from one-off gifts. There’s no need for repeat solicitation with recurring gifts.

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5 Myths That Are Sabotaging Your Major Gift Strategy

Saleforce Nonprofit

Tools like iWave streamline our prospect research by automatically aggregating and analyzing publicly available data to create rich (pun intended) donor profiles for our major gift officers. Donor prospects in Salesforce with an iWave Score of 4 get added to the major gift portfolio.

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5 Myths That Are Sabotaging Your Major Gift Strategy

Saleforce Nonprofit

Myth 1: Getting to know prospects is manual work Tools like iWave streamline our prospect research by automatically aggregating and analyzing publicly available data to create rich (pun intended) donor profiles for our major gift officers. Donor prospects in Salesforce with an iWave Score of 4 get added to the major gift portfolio.

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How to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Transparency Using Charity Watchdogs

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Organizations like GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and the Better Business Bureau’s Give.org aggregate information on nonprofit organizations to empower perspective donors, volunteers, grantors, board members, and employees to make informed decisions about the organizations and causes to which they can devote their time, energy, and resources.

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How to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Transparency Using Charity Watchdogs

Network for Good

Organizations like GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and the Better Business Bureau’s Give.org aggregate information on nonprofit organizations to empower perspective donors, volunteers, grantors, board members, and employees to make informed decisions about the organizations and causes to which they can devote their time, energy, and resources.

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?3 Reasons to Integrate Your Organization’s Systems

Saleforce Nonprofit

That meant more platforms, more apps, and more disconnected locations that collect and aggregate data. For example, if direct marketing segments are pulled before the most current gifts have been entered from donation pages, contacts may be pulled into the wrong groups and sent inappropriate solicitation messaging.