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What makes for successful fundraising? It’s about relationship building It’s about the experience If you do a good job with your mission, you will do a good job with fundraising and will be successful It’s about relationship building It’s about the experience If you do a good job with your mission, you will do a good job with fundraising and will be successfulTRANSCRIPT
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FUNDRAISING FOR FUNDRAISING FOR AGRICULTURE, EDUCATIONAGRICULTURE, EDUCATION
&&OUTREACHOUTREACH
Thomas A. FretzExecutive Director, NERA
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There’s no Fundraising Success without ….
• Relationship and Involvement with the Donor
• Good public relations• Trust and Respect – Internal and External• Teamwork – No one person gets the $$$• Positive Attitude• People give to help People
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What makes for successful fundraising?
• It’s about relationship building• It’s about the experience• If you do a good job with your mission,
you will do a good job with fundraising and will be successful
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Basic Principles of Fundraising
• Institutional Planning – Objectives set first (Need to know and establish your institutional goals)
• Deans and Development Officers are key to planning
• Key volunteer leadership required from the start• Commitment of the Dean
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Basic Principles of Fundraising
• Goals must be current, clear, believable, realistic and salable
• It’s about relationship building• People give to help people, fulfill dreams,
and do good• Important to show a faculty/staff
commitment
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Evaluate
Identification of Prospective
Donors
Strategize
VisitQualify
Involve
Solicit
Steward
The Fund-Raising Process
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Advancement vs. Development
• Public Relations• Government Relations• Alumni Relations• University Relations• Publications• Development
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Capital / Comprehensive Campaigns
• Campaign Mode – focused– Planning– Goal setting– Marketing– Communications
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Motivation for Gift Giving
• Commitment to the Institution – a sense of belonging
• Gratitude• Responsibility• Belief in project• Desire to Memorialize or Honor
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Motivations for Gift Giving• Recognition• Immortality• Guilt• Leverage• Tax deductions• Power
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Fund-Raising Programs• Students – Inform and Educate; involve in a
senior project• Young alumni – lower level annual fund • Middle-aged Alumni – Donor society; Major
gift prospects; Campaign leaders• Older Alumni – Trusts and Bequests;
Alumni leadership