Tag Archives: Tracking Results
Go Easy On The Cheap Champagne
At a recent Pride Philanthropy leadership conference, Senior Partner Jim Lyons made use of citrus, cherry tomatoes, red beans, rice, sand, and cheap champagne to illustrate the relative importance of fundraising activities. In his variation on the “put the big things in first” illustration, the bad bubbly represented special events, which “seemed like a good [...]
Benchmarking for Fundraisers
Last fall Pride Philanthropy conducted an extensive benchmarking survey to over 100 current and previous clients in twelve states. The 2009 Foundation Metrics Survey questions incorporated donor and volunteer recognition, fundraising projects, discovery, cultivation, and solicitation call strategies, donor renewals, special events, annual gifts, employee giving, business and corporate gifts, planned gifts, special gifts and [...]
