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Daily Nuggets:
A For Impact® Blog

Team • Jan 18, 2021

The Team Selling Framework is a powerful visual that helps define roles and responsibilities within the Sales Process. In this framework, roles...

Sales (Major Gifts) Process • Jan 14, 2021

You’re in sales, get over it!” – Tom Suddes As fundraisers, we’re in sales! We are selling the vision or the...

Personal • Jan 8, 2021

Through 2020 and coming into 2021, we collected many fundraising success stories from clients and friends who had to work...

Funding • Nov 13, 2020

Questions are powerful tools to a fundraiser (read: salesperson). Effectively used, they help you learn, connect, lead, qualify, and close....

Story • Oct 21, 2020

One of the best books I’ve ever read on engagement is Brain Rules, by John Medina. Medina, a college professor,...

Story • Oct 20, 2020

We’re pretty big on building a value proposition around the impact (of the program, of the investment — hence, our...

Personal • Oct 13, 2020

This is a part 2 to yesterday’s nugget: On Confidence. So how do we build confidence? Here are some ideas...

Personal • Oct 12, 2020

Confidence is something that’s not talked about enough in the world of fundraising. Thinking about the hundreds of leaders we’ve...

Funding • Oct 8, 2020

In school and in life, many of us are taught to present, but few of us are taught to engage. The difference...

Team • Oct 6, 2020

The size of a team is one of our first considerations when trying to build a fundraising campaign team, or...

WOW Email • Jul 15, 2020

We’ve spent the last three months helping clients pivot to virtual visits.  I still don’t think there is any one-size-fits-all...

Daily Nuggets • May 27, 2020

At For Impact, we are assuming that some form of social distancing and travel restrictions are here to stay for...