Capital Campaign Archives

April 10, 2019

The Best Fundraising Books Ever Get the best help you can! I’m a huge fan of fundraising best practices. Why break your head trying to...

April 3, 2019

The tale of Three Fundraisers. A parable. Once upon a time, a lovely old church sat in the middle of a little town. The church had been there for...

February 13, 2019

Are you using the right fundraising tools? What kind of tool is THAT? Look at that picture. Do you know what that is? I didn’t either until about...

December 12, 2018

Calling your “Disciples” Today’s post is a “Letter from the Almoner,” a fictional letter written to an imaginary...

December 5, 2018

Climbing Mount Donor – From the Top Down Dear Sister Veronica, Looking at this giant number… $8,000,000… is kind of like staring at Mount...

November 28, 2018

There’s GOLD in that thar database! Dear Sr. Veronica, Yes, I ate so much turkey that I just about sprouted feathers. It was fantastic. I...

November 21, 2018

Classical Persuasion Dear Sr. Veronica, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that ya’ll have a wonderful day of feasting and rest tomorrow. My family...

November 14, 2018

Bring Order Out of Chaos In the beginning… Dear Sr. Veronica, Thanksgiving is right around the corner. I don’t know what kind of big...

November 7, 2018

Ask like a five-year-old! Learn how to write your fundraising case from a master! Dear Sr. Veronica, My 5-year-old came to me this morning with a...

October 31, 2018

Capital Campaigns for Novices (or the Fully Professed) Today’s post opens a new volume in the “Letters from the Almoner” series...

May 9, 2018

How do I run a Capital Campaign? A Capital Campaign directs your fundraising energies towards one large capital project or multiple connected...

December 6, 2017

Not a drill, a planned emergency Dear Fr. Zagloba, Today I’m writing on a computer with a cracked screen. No idea how it happened, although...