Screening

Wealth screenings are the key to a successful fall donation drive. Let’s explore 5 tasks you can implement to make your fundraiser a success.

Wealth screening applies wealth data to a list of contacts to understand their giving and spending capacity and propensity. Result: find the best prospects.

Patients and their families have an affinity for your hospital and can be good prospects for fundraising. These grateful patient program tips can help.

As summer draws to an end and we prepare for fall, we are about to enter the season of “-Thons”.  Hosting a fundraising walk-a-thon, bike-a-thon, dance-a-thon, swim-a-thon, read-a-thon or other fundraising –thon can be a great way to build support …

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Linda Garrison, CFRE, Senior Consultant, WealthEngine Hot off the press, the newly released Giving USA 2017 draws a line in the philanthropic sand: Of the $390.5 billion given to philanthropy in 2016, nearly 88% of that came from individuals in the for …

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When preparing for a campaign, colleges and university advancement teams have a large number of prospects available to them including alumni, the parents of incoming students, etc. Conducting a wealth screening provides you with data and insights on th …

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We all know the finest prospects are those who align themselves with your mission, have great wealth and donate – the perfect trifecta. However, when shopping for new prospects, how do you know who will meet this criteria?  By using mult …

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Donations are the livelihood of your organization.  And fundraising can be challenging.  It’s both an art and a science.  In order to unlock the best practices out there, you need to find out what is making fundraising and research campaigns successful …

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Understanding the power and insights around the data WealthEngine uses to create our WealthGraph, consisting of 250 million individuals throughout the Nation, might be complex; however, it’s valuable to our clients. Core to the products WealthEngine bu …

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When Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) was vetting vendors to help them optimize their fundraising, they were looking for the best value, the highest quality data and an experienced team of subject matter experts. After comparing their option …

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In advertising relevance is paramount but what is relevant for one person is not for another. There are ads everywhere embedded into your daily routine, they have become synonymous with modern living. The bus stop you pass by, the gossip blog you check …

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In the education sector, a high performing organization is one that, on average, raises substantially more money per full-time student than its peers.  So, what is it about these high performing organizations that enables them to have such effecti …

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I’ve long been a big fan of the wit and wisdom of Jeff Schreifels and Richard Perry of the Veritus Group.  Recently, in their Passionate Giving blog they exhorted major gift officers to clean out their clogged middle donor pipelines. Say Jeff and Richa …

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