Ten Tactics Beyond Meeting Requests to Engage Your Donors

Face-to-face meetings are often viewed as the holy grail of donor engagement, but a one-size-fits-all approach to donor relations is destined to fail. Endless requests to meet often only annoy donors and do not move relationships forward. By bringing in these new tactics to convey impact to your donors, you will build stronger ties to your organization and maximize donor support.    Learning Objectives:

• Apply proven tactics to diversify contact with your donors and convey the importance of their partnership and support.
• Identify what types of communication and contact feel most impactful to individual donors.

Full participation in Ten Tactics Beyond Meeting Requests to Engage Your Donors is applicable for 1 point in Category 1.B – Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.

Learn more about the speaker:  Kelsey DeForest has spent more than a decade building relationships with philanthropists across the country and around the world in support of organizations committed to women’s health and rights. She currently serves as the Northeast Philanthropy Officer for The National Service Office for Nurse-Family Partnership and Child First, which supports two community-based home visiting models—one cares for first-time parents and their families, while the other focuses on caregivers and child mental health.