Know Where You Are Going When I was a kid, my dad loved to get us all in the car on a beautiful summer day and go for a drive. This was back in the days before cell phones, so there was no GPS to… Read More »Mapping Out Your Fiscal Year Begins with Preparing Your Portfolios
Nonprofits are continuously combing through various lists of constituents in order to find those who will be the right prospects for a particular initiative. They may be looking for those who can make a certain sized gift, those who can give to a particular… Read More »Proactive Prospecting: Prioritizing Prospects by Removing an Internal Bias
What kind of prospecting can you do to get the maximum benefit at the end of the calendar year? Join us at May’s Water Cooler Chat, where our special guest Jen Filla will be joining the discussion. Jen will present a few ways to help… Read More »Water Cooler Chat Replay: Proactive Prospecting That Supports End of Year Fundraising
As the end of the fiscal year approaches, there’s always a need for some last-minute prospecting strategies to help meet your fundraising goals. Learn to identify prospects who may be willing to give and how to use RFM values to support year-end prospecting. Additionally, understand… Read More »Last-Minute Prospecting to Help Meet Your Fundraising Goal
The old saying “April showers bring May flowers” holds true in fundraising. Join us for this Water Cooler Chat as we discuss last-minute prospecting techniques to bring in last-minute gifts.
In our recent Water Cooler Chat, we talked about how to automate stewardship to some extent. We Staupellians are passionate about automation because it gives us time for creative work.Traditionally, a variety of cultures and religions see this time of year as the time to… Read More »It’s a Thankful Time of Year
This month’s theme is “Scary Moments in Fundraising” (see our Water Cooler chat, here). I prefer to talk in optimistic terms, so writing a follow-up blog post rather puts me off. However, like it or not, we are living in scary times. Even if we… Read More »Negotiating Scary Times
It’s October so your annual campaign is already in gear. However, after the rush of printing and stuffing, or segmenting and emailing, you may have a short time to review your strategy. Here are some thoughts that I have after having run a successful annual… Read More »Thoughts on Annual Campaign Kickoffs
We always want to create the best portfolios for our front-line fundraisers, to position them for success. In our quest to create high quality portfolios, we often encounter obstacles that make it challenging or even halt our progress entirely. Three of the most common obstacles… Read More »Overcoming Obstacles to Position Portfolios for Success
This blog post will get published after the end of the fiscal year for most nonprofits, but the ideas in here can still be used to help boost any campaign end (or start or middle, for that matter). Here we’ll review five ways you can… Read More »5 Ideas for Last Minute Prospecting to Boost Your End of Year Fundraising
