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- Category: Fundraising Best Practices
- Gratitude and giving back: Harnessing social reciprocity among parents
- Breathing new life into your qualification process
- Non-Alumni as Engines of Support: How to Add Fuel to Your Effort
- Planned giving for non-experts: three ways to prioritize this effort
- A lecture on conjecture: Donor motivations and the danger of assumptions
- Three ways organizations benefit from resourcing prospect research
- How to write an email that will land you that first prospect meeting
- The three most common messaging questions we’ve received – and our answers
- Nine quick communication tips that always apply – pandemic or not
- Portfolio management best practices and how to implement them in three stages
- Metrics, KPIs, and Goal Setting in a New Fundraising Landscape
- Accepting the New Normal
- Capital Campaigns During COVID-19: 8 Ways to Approach Your Effort with Confidence and Clarity
- Making your big day of giving a success
- Stewarding Donors Through Crisis
- Your data tells a story. Are you listening?
- The Role of Effective Board Leadership in Successful Fundraising
- Leveraging Your Development Office
- Who wants to live forever?
- The Secret to Higher Alumni Participation: Start with Students, Not Alumni
- Asking For Money and Advice
- Capital Campaigns for Historic Preservation: How to Prepare Your Small Congregation
- You Don’t Know DAF: Approach Donor Advised Funds by Learning This Before You Die
- The double ask: a blended gift solution
- How Nonprofits Can Survive, and Even Thrive, During Tough Economic Times
- ‘Never put off ‘til tomorrow what you can leave to next week’
- Category: Industry Trends & Commentary
- Preparation & Planning: Where the rubber meets the road
- Building a High-Performing Campaign Team
- The Medical Director of Development: A major boost to fundraising
- Key Findings Among Social Change Nonprofits
- Four lessons learned from 2020 – and how you can act on them now
- Lessons Learned in 2020
- How to Conduct Meaningful Virtual Visits and Asks
- A Guide to Impeccable Timing for Fundraisers
- The impact of COVID-19: Outcomes of a recent survey of nonprofits
- A vote for philanthropy: Election season and boundless generosity
- Fundraising in a Time of Constant Change
- Rethinking the Future of Donor Visits
- What to consider NOW when it comes to #GivingTuesdayNow
- COVID-19 and Unrestricted Giving, Part 3: Making the Case
- Five Ways to Create Virtual Camaraderie
- COVID-19 and Unrestricted Giving, Part Two: Evaluating Readiness
- COVID-19 and Unrestricted Giving, Part 1: Now Is the Time
- How the CARES Act Impacts Nonprofit Organizations
- Five Things to Keep in Mind for Adult Learners
- Charity or Philanthropy: Embracing Both the Forest and the Trees
- 10 Tips for Enhancing Zoom Calls
- Remote Working Tips
- Seven Lessons from the Great Recession of 2008 that Apply Today
- Four Truths for Fundraising During Times of Uncertainty
- Philanthropy without fear: Setting fundraising facts straight
- A New Year’s Resolution that Sticks – and How to Leverage It
- A New Year’s Resolution for Your Nonprofit
- Embracing the importance of job titles in fundraising
- Non-Profit Cooperation: Conflicted Interest or Transformational Collaboration?
- Regrets, I’ve had a few….
- A History of #GivingTuesday
- Engagement goes beyond alumni relations
- Helping Your Team Grow Toward Goals: Part Three of Three
- Impactful friend-raising: building and tracking a volunteer workforce
- Three Takeaways from the Benchmarking Report
- Designing Your Development Path: Part Two of Three
- How to overcome the “I’m not a good writer” syndrome
- An Intentional Introduction to Fundraising: Part One of Three
- What Nonprofits Should Be Thinking About (Right) Now: Preparing for Cybercrime
- The Campaign Gift Pyramid: Is it Outdated?
- Initial Impressions from Ross-CASE 2019
- Why is the slowest form of fundraising also the most urgent?
- Hope Prevails Despite Divisions
- When is the right time to think globally?
- Tax Reform’s Impact on Healthcare Giving
- One Year In: How New Tax Laws are Impacting Charitable Giving Vehicles
- What Philanthropy Means in a Polarized World
- A Thousand Points of Light
- What ever happened to charity?
- Hope, health, and the future of fundraising
- Job titles through a different lens
- Category: Humans of Fundraising
- Humans of Fundraising: Molly Griffith
- Humans of Fundraising: Pat House
- Humans of Fundraising: Karen Beavor
- Humans of Fundraising: Carlisa Brown
- Humans of Fundraising: Lynnie Meyer
- Humans of Fundraising: Jim Lyddy
- Humans of Fundraising: Rabbi David Hoffman
- Humans of Fundraising: Andrea Marcille
- Humans of Fundraising: Mike Fazio
- Humans of Fundraising: Megan Murphy
- Category: Graham-Pelton News & Events
- Giving USA 2021 Sector-Specific Briefings
- Graham-Pelton client, Western Michigan University, Announces Largest Gift Ever to Public Higher Education
- Graham-Pelton launches Beyond Gratitude, a practical approach to grateful patient fundraising
- Senior Advisor Walt Edwards on revisiting donor interests in the shadow of COVID-19, talent development, and lessons learned from coaching
- Graham-Pelton Appoints New Senior Advisor to Augment Thriving Healthcare Practice
- 2019 Colleague Recognition Awards
- Society in Crisis: How Philanthropy Can Change Narratives Amid Uncertainty
- Senior Vice President Stuart Sullivan reflects on philanthropy, pipeline development, leadership
- Stuart P. Sullivan joins Graham-Pelton leadership team
- Philanthropic expertise featured in The Economist, Wall Street Journal, NPR, MarketWatch
- Four philanthropy myths that need busting
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy features Elizabeth Zeigler
- Elizabeth Zeigler featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review
- President and CEO Elizabeth Zeigler featured in Fast Company
- President and CEO Elizabeth Zeigler profiled in NJ Biz magazine
- Largest YMCA in North America partners with Graham-Pelton
- Virginia Military Institute notes campaign progress, close date
- Elizabeth Zeigler named CEO of Graham-Pelton
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- UnidosUS
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
