Visionary Fundraising For Nonprofits

Your Response To A Gift Speaks Volumes To The Giver

February 20, 2021 David Oaks Season 2 Episode 5
Your Response To A Gift Speaks Volumes To The Giver
Visionary Fundraising For Nonprofits
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Visionary Fundraising For Nonprofits
Your Response To A Gift Speaks Volumes To The Giver
Feb 20, 2021 Season 2 Episode 5
David Oaks

Fusion, by Nelson Searcy.  The book is about how Searcy, a fledgling church planter in New York City began to harness the power of first-time guests at his infant church.  

He began to see their first-time visit as a gift that he should celebrate.

1.  Like Searcy's first-time guests who never returned, most first-time donors never give a second gift.

"How you respond when you've been given a gift - and what you do with the gift itself - proves just how much you really appreciate it."- Nelson Searcy


2.  Know how you will thank first-time donors before you ask them to give.

Most nonprofits spend far more time asking and far less time thanking.  

THE biggest giving program globally, Harvard University, has more million-dollar gifts than anyone else in the world.  The majority of those givers' first gift was less than $100. 

HOW YOU RESPOND TO FIRST-TIME DONORS CAN DETERMINE IF THEY EVER GIVE AGAIN.  

ACTION STEPS:

  1. Develop a Welcome Packet

    2.  Involve your board in the welcoming process

  • Get your board to help you write thank-you’s to first-time donors
  • Educate your board about the power of celebrating first-time gifts
  • Give your board great examples of good thank-you notes they can follow

©2020 WorldStage Development - David Oaks

Get a digital copy of David's book: Visionary Fundraising today CLICK HERE
Special price $4.99

You can connect with David at www.davidoaks.net

Show Notes

Fusion, by Nelson Searcy.  The book is about how Searcy, a fledgling church planter in New York City began to harness the power of first-time guests at his infant church.  

He began to see their first-time visit as a gift that he should celebrate.

1.  Like Searcy's first-time guests who never returned, most first-time donors never give a second gift.

"How you respond when you've been given a gift - and what you do with the gift itself - proves just how much you really appreciate it."- Nelson Searcy


2.  Know how you will thank first-time donors before you ask them to give.

Most nonprofits spend far more time asking and far less time thanking.  

THE biggest giving program globally, Harvard University, has more million-dollar gifts than anyone else in the world.  The majority of those givers' first gift was less than $100. 

HOW YOU RESPOND TO FIRST-TIME DONORS CAN DETERMINE IF THEY EVER GIVE AGAIN.  

ACTION STEPS:

  1. Develop a Welcome Packet

    2.  Involve your board in the welcoming process

  • Get your board to help you write thank-you’s to first-time donors
  • Educate your board about the power of celebrating first-time gifts
  • Give your board great examples of good thank-you notes they can follow

©2020 WorldStage Development - David Oaks

Get a digital copy of David's book: Visionary Fundraising today CLICK HERE
Special price $4.99

You can connect with David at www.davidoaks.net