Mission Advancement’s Post

Some great insights here.

Great advice here from Tracy Cain. Are you listening to and learning from your donors in order to deepen your relationship? Cultivation is about relationships. That’s the Mission Advancement way!

What is the first step to cultivation? Tune in to listen to Tracy Cain as she shares some best practices for how to get to know your donors. Keep your questions coming this summer and stay tuned for next week's episode on Solicitation!

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How to Cultivate Your Calendar Year-End Donors Before You Ask Just like you can't ask someone to marry you on the first date (or maybe you can!!!!), you cannot go directly from not speaking to someone to asking them to contribute. In individual giving or major gifts, we call this stage cultivation. Call it what you may, "Warm Up," cultivation, pre-mailing, etc., you must spend the month of October preparing your donors for the eventual solicitation that will come in early to mid-November. Here is what I recommend for "Warming Up" your list: https://lnkd.in/gjB6KbtS

How to Cultivate Your Calendar Year-End Donors Before You Ask Just like you can't ask someone to marry you on the first date (or maybe you can!!!!), you cannot go directly from not speaking to someone to asking them to contribute. In individual giving or major gifts, we call this stage cultivation. Call it what you may, "Warm Up," cultivation, pre-mailing, etc., you must spend the month of October preparing your donors for the eventual solicitation that will come in early to mid-November. Here is what I recommend for "Warming Up" your list: https://lnkd.in/gjB6KbtS

How to Cultivate Your Calendar Year-End Donors Before You Ask Just like you can't ask someone to marry you on the first date (or maybe you can!!!!), you cannot go directly from not speaking to someone to asking them to contribute. In individual giving or major gifts, we call this stage cultivation. Call it what you may, "Warm Up," cultivation, pre-mailing, etc., you must spend the month of October preparing your donors for the eventual solicitation that will come in early to mid-November. Here is what I recommend for "Warming Up" your list: https://lnkd.in/gjB6KbtS

How to Cultivate Your Calendar Year-End Donors Before You Ask Just like you can't ask someone to marry you on the first date (or maybe you can!!!!), you cannot go directly from not speaking to someone to asking them to contribute. In individual giving or major gifts, we call this stage cultivation. Call it what you may, "Warm Up," cultivation, pre-mailing, etc., you must spend the month of October preparing your donors for the eventual solicitation that will come in early to mid-November. Here is what I recommend for "Warming Up" your list: https://lnkd.in/gjB6KbtS

How to Cultivate Your Calendar Year-End Donors Before You Ask Just like you can't ask someone to marry you on the first date (or maybe you can!!!!), you cannot go directly from not speaking to someone to asking them to contribute. In individual giving or major gifts, we call this stage cultivation. Call it what you may, "Warm Up," cultivation, pre-mailing, etc., you must spend the month of October preparing your donors for the eventual solicitation that will come in early to mid-November. Here is what I recommend for "Warming Up" your list: https://lnkd.in/gjB6KbtS

New Webinar Series: Working With Beneficiaries Connecting donors to the beneficiaries of their generosity is essential to the work we do in donor relations. But the world is changing, and how we work with beneficiaries has to, too. This four-part webinar series will teach you how to work with beneficiaries to effectively and ethically collect and share meaningful information with donors. Learn with us: https://lnkd.in/eXn3fMTE