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Major Gift Relationship Doesn’t Count

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A meeting started out negatively with the finance person saying that a personal relationship with a donor doesn’t really count – it doesn’t positively affect the retention or contribution of that donor. Now, to be fair, he didn’t exactly say it that way.

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4 Ways to Nurture Donor Relationships Through Staff Transitions

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Staff transitions are an inevitable part of growth and change at nonprofits, but nurturing donor relationships through these shifts can be challenging. Here are four ways that your organization can limit the negative effects of staff transitions.

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How to Emphasize Blended Gifts in Your Fundraising

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Historically, major gift officers solely sought donors with the capacity to make major gifts, and planned gift officers focused on prospects with the result being a planned gift. But now, blended gifts are the future of gift planning.

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Getting to a Transformational Gift

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Setting goals for the donors in your portfolio is important, but there’s another level of planning that successful major gifts officers do that leads to a transformational gift. Here are 6 tips on how successful major gifts officers can cultivate a transformational gift.

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How to Engage a Gift Prospect

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Here are some tips to cultivate and connect with engaged gift prospects. As a nonprofit professional, you learn the importance of generating time, talent and treasure for the institution you represent.

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Bad at Relationships? Five Moves to Ensure Success

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Whether you are a CEO trying to form a partnership with a board chair, a development director trying to work more closely with the marketing director or a major gifts officer trying to build a relationship with a donor, the relationship is everything. But for some of us, it’s hard.

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How to Present a Major Gift Offer That Can’t Be Refused

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Here's how this can help with major gift offers. As "The Godfather" showed, you're most persuasive when you give people what they want most.

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