We’ve been unpacking the 6 R’s of major donor fundraising: (1) Research, (2) Relationship, (3) Request, (4) Recognition, (5) Recruitment, and (6) Report. All 6 R’s are important but perhaps the one most misunderstood, misused, and underdelivered is Request. The Ask involves both the art...
“Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was...
"A successful donor visit is when the right person asks the right person for the right amount for the right project in the right place at the right time." Ron and Kent discuss how to determine the right amount to ask for a gift. View our 26-minute...
“David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there. All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander....
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called...
It’s Not Rocket Science...
Perhaps you’ve heard this famous fundraising axiom, “Successful fundraising is the right person asking the right prospect for the right amount for the right project at the right time in the right way¹".So, how do you know the right amount to ask for? What if...
That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people: “You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw. But require them to make the...
