March 6, 2018
Triumph despite turnover: Ensuring fundraising program success during leadership transitions
Recent studies confirm what we all know - transitions in fundraising staff and leadership are inevitable. Data demonstrates that the average tenure for development professionals…
February 13, 2018
Beyond Benchmarking: What the data can’t tell you
The title of this blog may strike you as a little odd, particularly given that Graham-Pelton Consulting recently partnered with IDPE to deliver the most…
December 20, 2017
Legacy giving and its possibilities
With non-legacy fundraising generating an incredible £172.5m for schools over the past two years and many reporting policies finding it difficult to account for legacy…
December 15, 2017
Well begun is half done: campaigns and planning
The IDPE Benchmarking Report shows that those schools in a campaign raised more money than those that were not. A campaign can focus your activity,…
July 31, 2017
Stop looking at how much you raise
Yearly fundraising campaigns tend to focus on the number of dollars raised by the end of a campaign cycle. Although the total amount collected is…
