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The One Thing Everybody Forgets ... In Creating a Major Gifts Program Contributed by:
Henry LewisTuesday, November 26, 2002 (10 years 172 days ago)
This week, something a little different. Your editor asked members of the MGR panel to respond with their answers to the title "question." What follows are those responses. Surprisingly enough, or maybe not, there seems to be a theme running through them. See what you think!!
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GO-AWAY-MONEY IS NOT A MAJOR GIFT, No Matter the Size of the Gift Contributed by:
Henry LewisTuesday, July 09, 2002 (10 years 312 days ago)
In the first issue of MGR, we suggested that, no matter its size, unless a gift met certain parameters, it wasn't "major." We emphasized the requirement that the process that obtained the gift had to be based on a plan/strategy that included face-to-face cultivation and solicitation components, and that the gift had to significantly help in attaining fundraising goals.
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Founder's Syndrome: An Affliction for Which There is Rarely Immunity Contributed by:
Henry LewisWednesday, June 26, 2002 (10 years 325 days ago)
The vast majority of Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) go through a birth-and-growth process that is pretty much the same, no matter the locale or service being provided. And, because of those similarities, most experience the phenomenon known as "Founder's Syndrome" -- a label normally used to refer to a pattern of negative or undesirable behavior on the part of the founder(s) of a NPO.
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The Cultivation Process Contributed by:
Henry LewisTuesday, April 30, 2002 (11 years 17 days ago)
To a great extent, a Major Gifts Program is a textbook effort in marketing - your objective is to involve your Friends with your organization, its activities and its mission so they come to want to do what it is you want them to do.
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Structuring/Recruiting Leadership: Preparing for a Major Gifts Program Contributed by:
Henry LewisTuesday, April 09, 2002 (11 years 38 days ago)
The most critical factor in creating a MG Program is the availability and willingness of a Leadership cadre -- volunteers who will accept responsibility for success.
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Setting Goals and Constructing the 'Pyramid' Contributed by:
Henry LewisTuesday, April 02, 2002 (11 years 45 days ago)
The ethics of fundraising require that an organization be able to justify its request for support -- that it must have proceeded from a strategic planning and budgeting process that determined just how much money will be needed to implement/continue/expand the programs that will advance its mission.
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What is a Major Gift, and Who Are the Major Prospects? Contributed by:
Henry LewisTuesday, March 26, 2002 (11 years 52 days ago)
When the question of major gift fundraising first arises, many unsophisticated board members, volunteers and staff immediately begin talking about the "rich and famous" -- with Bill Gates being the name at the top of everyone's list.
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