by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 12, 2006 | Events
The end of the year is rapidly approaching, so I thought I’d keep this issue of Extreme Fundraising light-hearted. Read this posting from Amy Kincaid and her Fundraising Breakthroughs blog gave me the fodder for this riff. This was posted on her blog: Quotable...
by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 6, 2006 | Samples & Tools
Are any of you trying anything new of different this year for your year-end fundraising? At Inland, we held a widely successful “Fall Pops Concert” in early November. What about you? If you are, post a comment below and contact Elizabeth Schwinn with the...
by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 6, 2006 | Education Opportunities
Start your new year off right with the Fundraising Coach’s Master Mind Group! This special 6-week course, limited to only 12 participants, will focus on the process for asking for money. Since it takes place over the course of a month and a half, you have the...
by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 6, 2006 | 2. Engage, 3. Ask
Here’s a follow up to my Dialing for Donor (visits) post: Don’t be the first to hang up the phone at the end of the call. It just happened to me yesterday. I chatted for close to a half hour with a friend I hadn’t connected with in over a year. When...
by Marc A. Pitman | Dec 6, 2006 | 1. Research, 3. Ask
I love feedback. I wouid probably constantly take surveys and assessments if I could. So I loved this idea from Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog as shared by Jeff Brooks on his Donor Power Blog: “Be Your Donor” day. Read the post and then give it a...
