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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!

Cultivation is all about listening to your donors! Episode 3: Cultivate drops tomorrow! In the meantime, here's a sneak peak of what's to come!

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’s the key to a sustainable, growing donor pipeline? Not kicking off a strong pipeline strategy at the start of the year could lead to missed goals by year-end. 😨 NEW WORKBOOK 🎉 Use this pipeline workbook to help build a rock-solid 2024 fundraising strategy and calendar. 👤 Prospect profile template 🌱 Cultivation plan template 🤝 Portfolio hand-off best practices ...and so much more!

Tim Connor, M.Ed, CFRE is back to answer another viewer question from Ep. 1 of our Summer Break Series: 'If most growth comes from an organization's existing donor portfolio, why do we even need new donor pipelines?' Watch this year's Summer Olympics Edition of our Summer Break Series where we're taking you through each stage of the donor cycle. Catch up on last week's episode on identifying donors and don't miss tomorrow's episode when we walk you through qualifying those donors!

Meet Dulari, Tiffany, and Brady. Are you looking for the playbook to fundraise more by creating journeys that guide donors from their first interaction to becoming lifelong advocates? The answer isn't a complicated one. It's threaded through an intentional donor journey. Tune into this episode as our experts walk us through how to create a modern donor journey within our organizations today.  🎧 https://lnkd.in/gpEahczh

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