Fundraising Insights

This site contains over 40 articles authored by Dianna, each containing insights into fundraising and reflecting the categories below. Use the Search function at the bottom of this page for other topics. Get new articles in your Inbox every month or so by subscribing below.

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If YOU could make a $1,000,000 gift
If YOU could make a $1,000,000 gift

Most nonprofits never receive a million dollar (or larger) gift and many fundraising professionals and EDs never ask for one. So we have good reason to think carefully about this topic and to plan even more carefully.

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Making legacy gifts brings joy to "very much alive" donors
Planned Giving, Capital Campaign, Understanding Donors
Making legacy gifts brings joy to "very much alive" donors
Planned Giving, Capital Campaign, Understanding Donors

Being able to see progress towards the realization of their fondest hopes for an organization or issue they’ve cared about intensely is not something most people want to miss. And yet many donors miss it through delaying their most personally rewarding gifts until after they’re gone.

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Planned Giving, Capital Campaign, Understanding Donors
 

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