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Small Shop Talk: Major Gifts with a Mega Impact
Lisa J. Boudreau | Harvard Medical School
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Session Goals
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Define a successful major gifts process
Share strategies for successful major gift solicitations
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Major Gifts Program Process
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Identify Needs
Engage Community Support
Identify and Cultivate Fundraising Leaders and Partners
Develop a Case for Support
Initiate Fundraising
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Case Study: Notre Dame Children’s Class
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Needs
Community
Volunteers
Case
Fundraising
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Case Study: Building for the Journey Ahead
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Needs
Community
Volunteers
Case
Fundraising
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Case for Support
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Case for Support
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The Institutional Case for Support should:
Demonstrate a clear need
Be grounded in sound financial plans
Inspire and motivate
Be mission-driven
…be developed, endorsed, and owned by the Board.
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Making the Ask: Prepare & Practice
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Case – Ask – Close
Solicitation teams – Donors and Institutional Leaders
Anticipate a multiple-step process
Build in next-step
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Making the Ask: Things People Fear Most
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1. Speaking in public
2. Asking for money
3., 4., 5., 6. Snakes, spiders and the like
7. Death
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Making the Ask: Use of Gift Pyramids
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$360,000asof5/27/14
$250,000+ 0/ 1
$100,000+ 1 / 2
$50,000+ 0 / 3
$25,000+ 4 / 6
$10,000+ 7 / 16
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October 19, 20152015 AFP MA Conference on PhilanthropyUnder$1K Many
Goal=$1.2Million.Achievedasof7/20/15$802,159
$100K+ 2/ 2
$50K+ 1/ 3
$25K+ 6/ 10
$10K+ 12/ 24
$5K+ 18/ 30
$1K+ 37/90
Making the Ask: Use of Gift Pyramids
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Making the Ask: A process, not an event
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Town Leader
Catalyst Donor
Grateful Friends
Consistent Messaging
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October 19, 20152015 AFP MA Conference on Philanthropy13
It was never the loving that emptied the heart, Nor the giving that emptied the purse strings.
~Anonymous
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