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The Five Questions for Qualifying a Major Gift Prospect

While there is a variety of ways to qualify (or disqualify) an individual as a major gift prospect, all approaches need to be able

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Is This the Last Crisis?

Please raise your hand if you were: Raising money in 1987 (Black Monday). Raising money in 2000 (Dotcom crash). Raising money on September 11,

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Qualifying A Major Gift Prospect

What does it take to be a true major gift prospect? How good are you and your organization at qualifying potential major gift donors?

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What Might The Ability To Extract The DNA Of Fluorescent Sea Animals Have To Do With People Making Charitable Gifts?

A recent edition of PBS's Nova (The Hidden Fluorescent World, 2016) featured the ways in which scientists1 are capturing the DNA of fluorescent creatures

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Mental Models: How we translate our ideas about prospects, programs, and how things work

Psychologists tell us that from our early days as toddlers to our days as adults, we are constantly organizing the world around us. We

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