The Healthcare Ecosystem: What Lessons Have We Learned From COVID-19?
Unfortunately, COVID-19 is not the last time we will find ourselves in a globally shared crisis; emerging and resurging diseases are a growing fact of life. While investing in science is an absolute priority for future health security, science alone will not get the public health job done. It must be complemented by philanthropic investment […]
Corporate Purpose in 2021: Key Trends for Authentic Stakeholder Engagement
In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic drove “five years of digital maturation compressed into five months.” Multiple vaccines were developed and approved for Covid-19 in under a year; previously, the fastest vaccine ever developed and approved – for mumps – took four years. While 2020 was undoubtedly a difficult year, it also drove unprecedented acceleration of […]
Q&A: PRO-TIPS FOR UPLEVELING YOUR NEXT VIRTUAL EVENT
I recently interviewed my colleague Marie Molese, Foundation board member for Martin Luther School in Queens, NY and Senior Managing Director at Changing Our World. Marie has hosted over 100 virtual events since the start of COVID for both Changing Our World and for her alma mater, Martin Luther School. Read on for advice on lessons learned from a pro and ideas for improving your next virtual event! Q: Have you […]
A MOVES MANAGEMENT SERIES: PART 1 – IDENTIFICATION
IDENTIFYING MAJOR GIFT PROSPECTS searching for the diamond in your data You can’t have a major giving program without major gift prospects. It’s true whether you’re just starting out or managing a large team of gift officers. Wherever you fall on the spectrum, there are plenty of ways to enhance your prospecting and bring new donors to the table. Machine learning is changing the game when […]
WHAT DO NON-HUMAN PRIMATES AND GIFT OFFICERS HAVE IN COMMON? Our brains limit the relationships we can maintain.
Research suggests that the need to maintain social groups was a contributor to the evolution of the primate brain, and that both human and non-human primates have a limit to the number of relationships they can manage. The social brain hypothesis (Byrne & Whiten 1988; Barton & Dunbar 1997) finds that humans can, cognitively speaking, maintain an average of 150 […]
FOUR FUNDAMENTALS FOR CREATING MORE EFFECTIVE DONOR JOURNEYS: Why you’re likely leaving money on the table – or even turning donors away – with impersonal communications
They say that people give to people. Like a lot of things “they” say, there’s some truth in that chestnut, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Perhaps more accurately, fundraising prospects give to people who take the time to engage them in meaningful ways, offer compelling giving opportunities that align with personal interests or […]
CHOOSING YOUR DONOR DATABASE
INTRODUCTION There are some questions that are as old as time, like what’s the meaning of life, where do I want to be in ten years, and what fundraising database should my nonprofit use? The database question is one that every organization must face at some point, and it’s fraught with fear and frustration. This […]
Catholic School Marketing and Advocacy Campaigns
AT CHANGING OUR WORLD, WE BELIEVE IN THE PROFOUND FORMATIVE POWER OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION. Over multiple decades living our faith through our work, we have represented 500+ Catholic schools, thousands of parishes and 35+ arch/dioceses throughout North America, as well as organizations committed to Catholic causes, including, most recently, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the […]
Top Five Reasons for Major Gift Officers to Develop their Emotional Intelligence Skills
Top Five Reasons for Major Gift Officers to Develop their Emotional Intelligence Skills Written by: Diana Curran, M.P.A. When it comes to working as a Major Gifts Officer there is no shortage of roadblocks, detours, traffic jams, or accidents that we encounter along our journey. I’m sure we’ve all experienced times when: conversations go off course […]
MG360: MAJOR GIFT METRICS
MANAGING AND EVALUATING MAJOR GIFT OFFICERS AND FRONT-LINE FUNDRAISERS Caution: What gets measured gets managed! Managers of major gift officers: it’s time to stop focusing on visit and activity metrics. Have you ever found a gift officer meeting repeatedly with the same 20-30 prospects while the rest of their portfolio sits dormant? A team of […]