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Staying Whole While Raising Big Gifts
Ever sat in your car after a donor visit just to catch your breath?
Me too. And I think we need to talk about it.
Raising big gifts is emotional work.
In one week, you might hold a donor's grief, a board member's impatience, and your ED's worries about cash flow. Then you walk into the next meeting and show up warm and curious anyway.
A major gift officer I'll call Alisha did that for months. Then she stopped calling her top donors. Every call felt like it needed more than she had left.
She didn't need a new strategy. She needed a way to stay whole.
Two minutes in the car before every visit…
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