4. MYTH BUSTING
Our cause is too difficult to secure major gifts
We don’t have enough connections
Prospect research is essential to success
It takes a long time to secure major gifts
There’s a ‘proper’ way to do major giving
It’s up to volunteers to ask for gifts
It’s all about schmoozing
6. WHERE DO YOU START?
Why?
Case for
Support
Who?
Audience
How much?
Monitor and
Evaluate
How?
Making theAsk
Redmond Mullin’s Fundraising Cycle, 1987
7. THE IMPACT PARADIGM
Products, services and facilities that result
from an organisation’s or project’s activities
Changes, benefits, learning or other effects
that result from what the project or
organisation makes, offers or provides
Broader or longer-term effects of a project’s
or organisation’s outputs, outcomes or
activities
Output
Outcome
Impact
8. WHAT CHANGES?
Number of visitors to a museum exhibition
and number of educational visits by schools
Visitors increase knowledge about local
history and gain pride in local area.
Others improve local economy
Enhanced identity increases tolerance.
More visitors come to local area.
Wider economy grows.
Output
Outcome
Impact
10. COUTTS MILLION POUND DONORS
REPORT 2015
Up by 2% in 2014 (from 292 to 298 gifts)
Overall value rose by £200m, from £1.36bn to
£1.56bn.
The number of million pound donations in the UK
in 2014 continued to rise from the low point of
the 2007 financial crisis.
Most gifts less than £2m, the number of grants
over £10m doubled to ten in 2014.
11. COUTTS MILLION POUND DONORS REPORT
2015
A total of 243 recipients received the 298 donations, although 29 organisations
received more than one.
Total - £1.56bn - 298 gifts of £1m+
Foundations
Higher Education
Health
International [1]
Overseas [2]
Human services
Arts, culture & humanities
Religious
Environment & animals
Education (not universities)
Public & societal benefit
£565m
£485m
£125m
£97m
£66m
£45m
£45m
£41m
£39m
£27m
£27m
86 gifts
65 gifts
28 gifts
25 gifts
22 gifts
19 gifts
23 gifts
8 gifts
8 gifts
9 gifts
4 gifts
12. SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
Everyone knows someone
Kevin Bacon, 6.6 and 30bn Microsoft messages
Who knows the Queen?
Contact mapping – what to record?
14. WE helps you to identify your best donors and gives you the
insights you need to understand what drives their decisions.
WE has unique data that takes the guesswork out of
fundraising. And that means you can engage the people most
likely to donate so that you don’t waste time on the ones who
won’t.
15. WE SERVICES FOR CHARITIES
FindWealth Online
Circle of Friends/Inner Circle
Database screening
Donor segmentation and analysis
Training and implementation
16. Research and profile individuals in the UK and US
Unique analysis returns information from multiple
data sources
Match summary provides an overview including
Estimated Giving Capacity and Propensity to Give
Comprehensive profiles of assets, income and
business information as well as philanthropic and
giving history
Circle of Friends
FIND WEALTH ONLINE
KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUR PROSPECTS THAN EVER BEFORE
17. Using their Circle of Friends, WE can find matches
with your Inner Circle to identify those with
deeper relationships to your target audience.
You’ll be able to immediately use these
relationships in your prospecting, marketing and
engagement campaigns.
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
YOUR INNER CIRCLE
18. Wealth scores and ratings - identify, segment and
prioritize donors and prospects with the right
attributes based on propensity to give, charitable
giving and more.
RFM score – use your giving history as a proxy for
affinity
SCREEN YOUR DATABASE
UNCOVER HIDDEN POTENTIAL IN YOUR DATABASE
19. DONOR SEGMENTATION ANDANALYSIS
Quickly analyze and segment your database
through your screening results
Find your best mid-value prospects and legacy
prospects as well as your major donor prospects
Get more ROI from your fundraising programmes
as a result of more accurate targeting of
individuals for specific campaigns
Build a roadmap for next steps
22. SEGMENTATION RESULTS: DONORS
£25K+ £5k+ <£5K
VH
Angels TrueBelievers Loyalist
H
M HighTouch FoundationalGivers
PyramidBase
L
WishList
Donors are screened by the RFM scores and Estimated Giving Capacity
They are then rank ordered and placed into 7 segments
Estimated Giving Capacity
RFMScoresTotal
25. BREAKING DOWN A CAMPAIGN
Target Gift No.
approaches
No.
Funders
Total
income
Prospects
£200,000 4 1 £200,000
£50,000 8 2 £100,000
£10,000 20 5 £50,000
£5,000 20 5 £25,000
£1,000 100 25 £25,000
Total 152 37 £400,000
26. WHAT ABOUT REVENUE CASES?
Impact, not budget line items
Who does the asking?
Blended finance – diversifying income streams
That’s the plan – how do you ask?
28. WHY DON’T PEOPLE ASK?
Fear of looking desperate or like we’re begging
Fear of our being exposed for lack of knowledge
Fear of not being the best person to ask
Fear of rejection
There’s always something more immediate that
needs our attention
Spending too much time on prospect research
29. WHY DO PEOPLE GIVE?
Your impact matches their reasons to give
Todo something that interests them
The benefits that they will receive
Tobe seen to be giving
Timing
Duty
Because they are asked
30. FIRST RULE OF FUNDRAISING
If you don’t ask you don’t get
Link the ‘What’ with the ‘Who’
Who asks? When do they ask?
Remember, ‘People give to people’
31. Daniel Kahneman and
Amos Tversky’s work
published in 2011
Changed thinking about
thinking
Introduced two ways of
how the brain works
Deals with heuristics –
cognitive biases that we
don’t realise are there
SCIENCE OFASKING
32. Avoid too many choices
Don’t fight how the
brain is going to work
Keep it simple
Use stories
LAZY BRAIN DILEMMA
33. ANCHORING
Would you be willing to
•
•
•
donate to save 50,000 offshore Pacific Coast
seabirds from small offshore oil spills?
pay $5 to save 50,000 offshore Pacific Coast
seabirds from small offshore oil spills?
pay $400 to save 50,000 offshore Pacific Coast
seabirds from small offshore oil spills?
34. Average with no anchor
- $64
Average with low
anchor –
$20
Average with high
anchor –
$143
Pitch it right
ANCHORING
35. FOMO: Fear Of Missing
Out
Driver of social media
and estate agents
Offer limited naming
opportunities
Introduce urgency
SCARCITY VALUE HEURISTIC
37. Sharing gifts is part of
human nature
Sharing gifts is more
important than relative
gift sizes
A thoughtful offer can
result in a high value
gift
RECIPROCITY PRINCIPLE
38. WHO’S ON YOUR TEAM?
Fundraising team
Fundraising volunteers
Board of trustees
Senior management team including CEO
Staff team
Volunteers
Supporters
39. USE BE TO COACH THEM
Thinking about Behavioural Economics helps you
be more donor-centric
It’s less about recruiting supporters to your
charity, and more about finding people with
shared visions
Excellent fundraising organisations share their
fundraising
42. IN CONCLUSION
A compelling case for support changes everything
Major giving is mainly about people, but data can
help you find them
Flexibility is more important than fixed plans
Fundraising can be easy, but it’s also very easy to
get it wrong
44. NCVO champions the voluntary sector and
volunteer movement to create a better society.
We connect, represent and support over 11,500
voluntary sector member organisations, from the
smallest community groups to the largest
charities.
This helps our members and their millions of
volunteers make the biggest difference to the
causes they believe in.
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