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by Clarke Schwabe

Conquering the Blank Page: Proposal Writing Tips

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So, you’re writing a proposal—you’ve had multiple meetings with the prospect, you’ve established a rapport, you know what they’re interested in, and they know what UGA can do to help their gift make a significant impact. Great! Now,…
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by Jane Barghothi

The Life Cycle of a Gift

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Bringing a gift to fruition from beginning to end is often a full team effort. It includes multiple departments, colleagues and activity and happens over time – sometimes months, sometimes years. The following story describes the team effort…
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by Adam Roell

Humility: A Fundraiser's Best Friend

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Usually when people think of humility, it is not the first quality that they want others to notice about themselves. Humility can sometimes be associated with a lack of confidence, knowledge, or skill in a particular profession. In the world…
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by Jane Barghothi

10 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Becoming a Frontline Fundraiser

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Do you ever look back on the first few years of your career as a fundraiser and say to yourself, “Did I really do that?” I have multiple times, whether it was making an assumption about a donor or over-researching a prospect before picking…