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When Worlds Collide: Major Gifts and Direct Marketing Team Up to Maximize Mid-Level Donors

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And successful mid-level programs are borrowing and blending the best of both disciplines. And there is more structure to ease any cultural or tactical friction that might arise between the departments. The strengths of each discipline are blending. We have also developed an exciting collaboration with our major gift team.

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Foundations and Nonprofits: What Does it Mean to “Speak the Same Language”?

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Nonprofits are preoccupied with writing what the funder wants to read or hear, and foundations are compliant with proposal templates that change little over years or even decades. Over many years, my colleagues and I at The Rensselaerville Institute have learned that proposals based on process, structure, and beliefs are needlessly long.