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Starting a Recurring Giving Program: Tips from the Major Hospital Foundation

Connection Cafe

Ask if they will be guinea pigs for the program and be honest about your purpose. They receive a unique acknowledgement when they sign up and a gift summary at the end of each calendar year. Let that run for a few weeks before actually pushing the program out publicly. They have their own spot on the Foundation’s donor display.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

million organization, $900,000 of that is philanthropy, and you’re at the end of your calendar year and so far you’re at about $790,000. And I’d love to try them out with you all as my guinea pigs to see what their tool is like and if I like it so I can tell others about them. So it may be that you’re a $1.2

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