Real Talk for Real Fundraisers
By Veritus Group
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Welcome to Real Talk for Real Fundraisers, the podcast where fundraisers, nonprofit leaders, and industry experts come together to vent, laugh, and learn. Through candid storytelling and insightful interviews, we explore the highs, lows, and everything in between. With a fearless, irreverent, and conversational tone, we’re breaking down barriers, challenging the status quo, and creating a safe space to tackle the real struggles of the nonprofit world- one honest conversation at a time.
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The Power of Qualifying Donors
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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What Great Fundraisers Really Understand About Donors
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Diana Frazier: Is Your Donor Database Actually Working for You?
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Holly Rustick: Why Your Non-Profit Needs a Grant Strategist (Not Just a Grant Writer)
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Diana Frazier: 6 Things Every Fundraiser Should Focus On in 2026
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Christopher Beck: Five Questions Every Non-Profit Leader Needs to Answer About Equity
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Diana Frazier: What Makes Great Fundraisers Great at Year-End
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Marne Fauser: How Authentic Leaders Inspire and Empower Their Teams
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Tom Ahern: Lessons in Fundraising, Love, and the Language of Giving
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Richard Perry: Building a Smarter Development Team
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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T. Clay Buck: Relationships Are the Strategy
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Joyce MacDonald: Navigating the Future of Public Media
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Jason Lewis: Rethinking Big Philanthropy
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Michael D'Antonio: Building a Brand That Resonates
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Laura Lang & Lauren Centrella: Finding Resiliency During Challenging Times
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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David Rhode: Navigating Non-Profit Leadership
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Adrian Owen Jones: How to Lean into Your Strengths to Become a Better Leader
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May 29, 2025 |
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Welcome to the NEW Veritus Group Podcast, Real Talk for Real Fundraisers!
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May 27, 2025 |
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Building Authentic Relationships
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Your January Checklist
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Three High Impact Strategies to Do Before 12/31
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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The State of Relational Fundraising: What We’re Seeing Across the Sector!
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Don't Cut That Budget!
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Are You Made for Management?
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Burnout and Self-Compassion in Fundraising
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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The Art of the Handoff
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Let People Do Their Jobs
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Preparing for a High-Impact Fall and Year-End Fundraising Season
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Re-Release: Using Permission-Based Asking with Your Donors and Securing Meetings
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Applying The Veritus Way Internationally!
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Special Episode: Live from the AADO Conference
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Do You Know the Hidden Potential in Your Donor File?
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Practical Tips for Facilitating a Donor Meeting
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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How Mid-Level and Direct Response Can Partner Together
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May 21, 2024 |
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Measuring Metrics That Matter
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May 14, 2024 |
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What to Do When You Inherit a Caseload
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Mapping the Donor Journey: A Pipeline Health Checklist
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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How to Get a Donor Meeting Back on Track
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Celebrating Women in Fundraising, Featuring Yolanda F. Johnson
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Yes, You Do Need to Ask All Year Long!
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Working From Your Energy: Bringing Your Best Self to Your Work With Donors
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Finding the Right Job: Tips from a Non-Profit Recruiting Expert
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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How to Get Yourself Transitioned into the New Year
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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How to Be an Effective Non-Profit Leader and Manager
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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An Interview with the American Brain Foundation
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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How to Meaningfully Transition a Donor Relationship
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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It’s Time to Move on From Moves Management
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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How The Veritus Way Changed Our Work with Partners: An Interview with the East Texas Food Bank
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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How to Talk About Fundraising Within Your Organization
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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The Basics You Still Don't Have Down
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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The Three Legs of a Successful Planned Giving Program
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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How to Be More Efficient in Your Year-End Planning
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Re-Release: What’s Holding You Back from Investing in Major Gifts?
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Can We All Just Get Along?
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Re-Release: Five Things Every Fundraiser Should Do in the Summer
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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How to Identify the BEST Candidate in Your Hiring Pool
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Dealing with Boundaries and Inappropriate Situations with Donors
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Re-Release: 7 Ways to Stand Out with Your Donors
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May 26, 2023 |
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Everything You Need to Know About the Latest Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report
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May 09, 2023 |
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Everyone Needs a Coach
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Major Gifts Is NOT a 9-5 Job
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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You (Yes, YOU) Can Talk Confidently About Planned Giving!
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Boards + Fundraising: How to Create a Thriving Partnership
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Moving From Money to Mission: How to Transform Donor Conversations
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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How Self-Love Transforms Everything, Including Fundraising
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Are You Properly Nurturing Your Donor Pipeline?
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Why Outsourcing Management Is Key to Your Success
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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5 Things to Do When You Get Back from the Holidays
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Creative Ways to Stand Out at Year-End
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Using Permission-Based Asking with Your Donors and Securing Meetings
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Bringing Your Authentic Self to Your Work
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Terrible Things Non-Profits Do That Drive Donors Away
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Taking Your Donor to the Scene, Without Promoting a Savior Mentality
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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The Veritus Way in Action: Interviews with Our Clients
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Tiering Your Donors: The Ultimate Caseload Management Strategy
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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5 Reasons Why We Love Mid-Level (And You Should Too!)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Tips to Better Serve Your Donors
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Fifteen Questions to Help You Go Deeper with Your Donor (re-release)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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How to Approach Fundraising When Your Mission Doesn’t Fit in a Neat Box
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Moving Out of a Membership Mindset
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Keep, Lift, Move: The Three Objectives of a Successful Mid-Level Program
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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How to Approach Donor Stewardship in Planned Giving
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May 24, 2022 |
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Supporting Black & Brown Fundraisers in the Non-Profit Sector
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May 09, 2022 |
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How to Take Your Org From Transactional to Relationship-Based Fundraising (Webinar Replay featuring The American Cancer Society)
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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How to Be a Champion for Organizational Change
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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What’s Holding You Back From Investing in Major Gifts?
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Does ‘The Veritus Way’ Work for Smaller Organizations?
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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How to Make the Case for Admin Support
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Do You Need a Legacy Society?
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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The Impact of a Toxic Workplace
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Creating Collaboration Between Capital Campaigns and Major Gifts
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Get Your Donors Close to the Need
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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5 Things Fundraisers Need to Do Next Week
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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The Confidence to Have Tough Conversations
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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The Importance of Presence
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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You Can't Thank Your Donors Too Much!
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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An Interview with the Editors of Collecting Courage
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Horror Stories from the Field
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Answering Your Most Pressing Questions
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Do Membership Programs Suppress Giving?
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Does Your Team Even Want to Go Back to the Office?
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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You Can't Have Major Gifts Without Donor Offers
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Leading through Change
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Finding Good Planned Giving Leads
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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The Three Things Leaders Get Wrong About Mid-Level
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Five Things Every Fundraiser Should Do in the Summer
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Embracing Overhead
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Not Everything We Say Is True
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May 24, 2021 |
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How Likeable Are You?
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May 11, 2021 |
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The Donor Engagement Plan
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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No Outcomes, No Income
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Seven Ways to Stand Out with your Donors
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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From $1,000 to $100,000
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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More Myths in Major Gifts
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Answers to Your Burning Questions
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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New Year's Resolutions, Part 2
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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New Year's Resolutions, Part One
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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The Six Economic Realities of Major Gifts
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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The Donor-Facing Back Office
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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The Biggest Barrier to Major Gift Success
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Dispelling the Myths about Major Gifts
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Equity in the Non-Profit Workforce
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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What is The Veritus Way?
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Strategies to End the Year Strong
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Fifteen Questions to Help You Go Deeper with Your Donor
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Ten Ways to Get Rid of Your Donor
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Should MGOs Get Bonuses?
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Five Reasons MGOs Fail
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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What’s Wrong with University Major Gift Fundraising?
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Now is the Time to Invest in Major Gifts
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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The Sky is Falling!
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Are All Your Eggs in One Basket? Diversifying your revenue streams
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May 19, 2020 |
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Forget Pivoting — It's Time to Really Change
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May 05, 2020 |
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Planned Giving in a Time of Crisis
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Getting your Coronavirus Story Right and Asking
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Answers to Your COVID-19 Crisis Questions
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Special Episode — How Should I Think about Fundraising in a Crisis?
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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The Importance of Administrative Assistants
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Bad Bosses
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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The Spirituality of Major Gift Fundraising
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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What's Wrong with Planned Giving?
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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What’s Wrong with University Major Gift Fundraising?
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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It's Good to Have Older Donors
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Is Your Manager Ignorant About Major Gifts?
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Do You Know the ROI of Your Donor Portfolio?
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Can We All Just Get Along?
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Keeping Good Major Gift Officers
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Changing Your Non-Profit Culture, with Mark Rovner
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Major Donors and Capital Campaigns – with Amy Eisenstein
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Discover Your Major Donors' Passions and Interests
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Creating Compelling Donor Offers, with guest Tom Ahern
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Using Technology to Connect with Donors – with Greg Warner
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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Inspiration for Major Gifts Work – with Frank Mumford
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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New Ideas to Cultivate Your Major Donors
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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What Does It Take to be a Great MGO?
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Why Do We 'Qualify' Major Donors?
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May 28, 2019 |
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Current Donors Aren't Prospects: Thinking Differently About Donors
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May 08, 2019 |
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The Major Gifts Pipeline, with guest Jeff Brooks
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Why doesn't the word "Annual" belong in a MGO's vocabulary?
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Apr 08, 2019 |