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Your major gift officers' portfolios could be hurting their fundraising potential
“Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink.” That’s how it goes with overfull portfolios. For decades, advancement leaders followed the theory that assigning major gift officers 125, 150, or even 200 prospects would ensure broad cultivation. The best prospects would rise to the top, and fundraisers would simultaneously develop a pipeline of supporters…
Inside the mind of a Curious Chameleon
Institutions are more dependent now than ever before on major gifts. In 2011, 77% of total higher education campaign dollars came from the top 1% of donors. Therefore, the selection of a top major gift officer (MGO) has never been of greater importance. But what qualities does a perfect MGO possess? And how can you…
Engage emerging entrepreneurs sooner rather than later
Entrepreneurs can be near-impossible to engage. They are often too busy to attend networking or sporting events. Their early-stage ventures may not have the capacity to hire recent graduates. They may not be located close enough to campus for in-person mentorship opportunities. Yet early stage alumni entrepreneurs have immense giving potential. Overnight, they can become…
Develop Your Major Gift Pipeline
Pipeline development must begin at the beginning: with a robust, active discovery operation. Yet the need for high prospect assignment rates and the tendency for MGOs to “claim” prospects mean that large groups of prospects sit in portfolios unattended. To take advantage of their untapped potential, forward-thinking advancement leaders are focusing on the barriers preventing MGOs from doing discovery: MGOs’ distrust of newly assigned prospects’ potential, their discouragingly low outreach hit rate, and the distractions created by the “tyranny…
Reimagine Constituent Engagement for the 21st Century
The days of in-person event programming serving as the central pillar of engagement strategy are nearing an end. Creating digital programming that requires active participation, but not much time, is the key to engaging today’s time-pressed alumni. There are two fundamental approaches to digitizing active engagement. First, apply digital force-multipliers to in-person events, such as livestreaming popular events to a remote audience. Second, engineer micro-engagement opportunities online, which can involve a range of opportunities, from contributing memories to a virtual…
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Accelerating Portfolio Churn
About the Webconference Advancement leaders who focus on engaging new prospects often encounter a troubling challenge: major gift officers’ portfolios have no room for newly identified prospects, regardless of their potential. The average portfolio is overfull, stagnant, and moving at a glacial pace (if at all) toward a solicitation. This webconference will discuss best-practice strategies…
Innovations in Annual Fundraising
About the Webconference Royall & Company’s commitment to rigorous, ongoing advancement research has consistently invigorated annual fundraising strategies with modeling, transactional data, and longitudinal analysis. In this webconference, Royall experts share their tactics to increase and sustain donor participation. You will learn how to: Capture philanthropic giving of alumni who are currently donating to organizations other…
2019-2020 Advancement Forum National Meeting
Join us at a 2019-2020 National Meeting The pace of change in advancement continues to accelerate as we turn to the 2020s. Donor expectations are rising, technology is growing more complex as well as more essential, and dollar goals continue climbing higher than ever before—perhaps past the point of sustainability. In this challenging environment, advancement…