How much money should you have pledged before you go live with your crowdfunding or capital campaign?
This is part two of our interview with Andrea Kihlstedt, a national expert on Capital Campaigns, and co-founder of Capital Campaign Masters. Before you do a feasibility study, here are 4 things you need to have in place. She will be teaching at our online Nonprofit Leadership Summit on September 27th-29th. That’s just 13 days […]
INTERVIEW: Starting your capital campaign with Andrea Kihlstedt
Hey, everybody. Welcome. This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising and today I am so, so pleased to do my very first interview – hopefully there will be more – with Andrea Kihlstedt, who is the head of Capital Campaign Masters, who’s written a book on capital campaigns. It’s a textbook which is in […]
Are you asking for a transaction? Or a relationship?
Today we are interviewing Jeff Schreifels on major gifts-the typical mistakes people make when trying to get major gifts, and how you can cultivate your major donors. Read the first part of this interview here. MT: Okay. I made a gift this weekend to a political campaign because I had been asked to make the […]
INTERVIEW: Getting more major gifts with Jeff Schreifels
Hey, everybody. Welcome. This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising and today I have the pleasure of chatting with Jeff Schreifels, cofounder of the Veritus Group. Also co-author of It’s Not Just About the Money. I’ve reviewed Jeff’s book before, and I’m really excited to have him today speaking with us about how to […]
4 things I learned from making an ask this week
This week I did something scary. On Friday afternoon, my friend asked me to make the ask for her first campaign kickoff on Saturday afternoon. At first I wanted to say no. I wanted to say, “Sorry, I can’t do it.” But I couldn’t do that to her. I frantically started to write a draft […]
Learn the most effective way to fundraise April 4th-5th, 2016
“Major gift fundraising can be the unicorn for some organizations. Constantly chasing, kind of seen off in the distance, and always wondered like why can’t we have a major gifts program?” This is part two of an interview with John Urschel, educator at Bay Path University. We’re going to switch gears a little bit to […]