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Major Gifts Tricks and Treats – Halloween Nonprofit Blog Carnival

The Halloween Nonprofit Blog Carnival is back, offering tricks and treats galore from a Witches Coven of nonprofit experts – all good spirits who’ll help you find, cultivate, solicit and steward your major donors.

You like to trick and treat at the houses that give out the most candy, natch?  Well… let’s find the donors giving out the most goodies, so your mission is assured of a heapin’ Halloween sack filled with success!

And let’s get you prepared! We don’t want you showing up without a costume, or lacking a thoughtful plan of attack that takes you through the “good” neighborhoods. Sure, you might get some lollipops and chewing gum. But what you really want, I dare say, are the Snickers bars and Reese’s peanut butter cups.

Go for what you need.  Go for what will make your time spent on this effort feel worth your while.

Nonprofit Blog Carnival Call for Submissions: Tricks or Treats – How To Get and Sustain Major Gifts

I’m majorly S C R E A M I N G with delight to be hosting this month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival!

So majorly, in fact, that the subject this month is TRICKS or TREATS – How To Get and Sustain Major Gifts?

Tell us your tricks – the ones that work!

• Do you HAUNT prospects through a series of managed ‘moves’?
• Do you fly in on a BROOMSTICK and just drop in spontaneously?
• How do you put them under your SPELL?

Tell us some treats – ways you wow your donors!

• Smile like a JACK-O-LANTERN every time you think of them; then figure out a way to let them know?
• Give them lots of virtual CANDY (seriously, do you use social media for any part of your major gifts strategy)?