When Care Becomes Conditional, Everyone Pays
Protecting Health-Care Access Is Common Sense and Helps Us All At Mollard Consulting, we are grateful to work with leaders who strengthen their communities through mission-driven service. One of those partners is Dr. Mahdi Ashrafian, the CEO of Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics. He wrote the article below in September for the Santa Barbara Independent, and […]
Donor Data and Year End Giving
It’s December, and we hope that your year-end fundraising is well underway and that you are following up on asks already made and ensuring current donors don’t lapse. What follows are highlights from studies and reports to help you meet your fundraising goals. The most recent Fundraising Effectiveness Report states that while donor retention has stabilized, there […]
Donor Motivations
Understanding why your donors give is a fundamental aspect of a fundraising strategy, but we must remember that donors as a group are not a monolith. The individuals and institutions who support your organization are as diverse as their reasons for giving. A client recently shared that her board members keep searching for a fundraising […]
The Do’s and Don’ts of Donor Stewardship
Our team refers to three primary fundraising strategies: 1. Ask (solicitation) 2. Thank (acknowledgment and recognition) 3. Engage (cultivation and stewardship) While most organizations ask and thank (and ask and thank some more), not all organizations spend time engaging with donors outside the context of an ask. While cultivation is the work that happens before an ask is made, stewardship is […]