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Real Talk for Real Fundraisers — 158 episodes
Why Your Best Fundraisers Leave (and What Makes Them Stay)
The Power of Qualifying Donors
What Great Fundraisers Really Understand About Donors
Diana Frazier: Is Your Donor Database Actually Working for You?
Holly Rustick: Why Your Non-Profit Needs a Grant Strategist (Not Just a Grant Writer)
Diana Frazier: 6 Things Every Fundraiser Should Focus On in 2026
Christopher Beck: Five Questions Every Non-Profit Leader Needs to Answer About Equity
Diana Frazier: What Makes Great Fundraisers Great at Year-End
Marne Fauser: How Authentic Leaders Inspire and Empower Their Teams
Tom Ahern: Lessons in Fundraising, Love, and the Language of Giving
Richard Perry: Building a Smarter Development Team
T. Clay Buck: Relationships Are the Strategy
Joyce MacDonald: Navigating the Future of Public Media
Jason Lewis: Rethinking Big Philanthropy
Michael D'Antonio: Building a Brand That Resonates
Laura Lang & Lauren Centrella: Finding Resiliency During Challenging Times
David Rhode: Navigating Non-Profit Leadership
Adrian Owen Jones: How to Lean into Your Strengths to Become a Better Leader
Your January Checklist
Three High Impact Strategies to Do Before 12/31
The State of Relational Fundraising: What We’re Seeing Across the Sector!
Don't Cut That Budget!
Are You Made for Management?
Burnout and Self-Compassion in Fundraising
The Art of the Handoff
Let People Do Their Jobs
Preparing for a High-Impact Fall and Year-End Fundraising Season
Re-Release: Using Permission-Based Asking with Your Donors and Securing Meetings
Applying The Veritus Way Internationally!
Special Episode: Live from the AADO Conference
Do You Know the Hidden Potential in Your Donor File?
Practical Tips for Facilitating a Donor Meeting
How Mid-Level and Direct Response Can Partner Together
Measuring Metrics That Matter
What to Do When You Inherit a Caseload
Mapping the Donor Journey: A Pipeline Health Checklist
How to Get a Donor Meeting Back on Track
Celebrating Women in Fundraising, Featuring Yolanda F. Johnson
Yes, You Do Need to Ask All Year Long!
Working From Your Energy: Bringing Your Best Self to Your Work With Donors
Finding the Right Job: Tips from a Non-Profit Recruiting Expert
How to Get Yourself Transitioned into the New Year
How to Be an Effective Non-Profit Leader and Manager
An Interview with the American Brain Foundation
How to Meaningfully Transition a Donor Relationship
It’s Time to Move on From Moves Management
How The Veritus Way Changed Our Work with Partners: An Interview with the East Texas Food Bank
How to Talk About Fundraising Within Your Organization
The Basics You Still Don't Have Down
The Three Legs of a Successful Planned Giving Program
How to Be More Efficient in Your Year-End Planning
Re-Release: What’s Holding You Back from Investing in Major Gifts?
Can We All Just Get Along?
Re-Release: Five Things Every Fundraiser Should Do in the Summer
How to Identify the BEST Candidate in Your Hiring Pool
Dealing with Boundaries and Inappropriate Situations with Donors
Re-Release: 7 Ways to Stand Out with Your Donors
Everything You Need to Know About the Latest Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report
Everyone Needs a Coach
Major Gifts Is NOT a 9-5 Job
You (Yes, YOU) Can Talk Confidently About Planned Giving!
Boards + Fundraising: How to Create a Thriving Partnership
Moving From Money to Mission: How to Transform Donor Conversations
How Self-Love Transforms Everything, Including Fundraising
Are You Properly Nurturing Your Donor Pipeline?
Why Outsourcing Management Is Key to Your Success
5 Things to Do When You Get Back from the Holidays
Creative Ways to Stand Out at Year-End
Using Permission-Based Asking with Your Donors and Securing Meetings
Bringing Your Authentic Self to Your Work
Terrible Things Non-Profits Do That Drive Donors Away
Taking Your Donor to the Scene, Without Promoting a Savior Mentality
The Veritus Way in Action: Interviews with Our Clients
Tiering Your Donors: The Ultimate Caseload Management Strategy
5 Reasons Why We Love Mid-Level (And You Should Too!)
Tips to Better Serve Your Donors
Fifteen Questions to Help You Go Deeper with Your Donor (re-release)
How to Approach Fundraising When Your Mission Doesn’t Fit in a Neat Box
Moving Out of a Membership Mindset
Keep, Lift, Move: The Three Objectives of a Successful Mid-Level Program
How to Approach Donor Stewardship in Planned Giving
Supporting Black & Brown Fundraisers in the Non-Profit Sector
How to Take Your Org From Transactional to Relationship-Based Fundraising (Webinar Replay featuring The American Cancer Society)
How to Be a Champion for Organizational Change
What’s Holding You Back From Investing in Major Gifts?
Does ‘The Veritus Way’ Work for Smaller Organizations?
How to Make the Case for Admin Support
Do You Need a Legacy Society?
The Impact of a Toxic Workplace
Creating Collaboration Between Capital Campaigns and Major Gifts
Get Your Donors Close to the Need
5 Things Fundraisers Need to Do Next Week
The Confidence to Have Tough Conversations
The Importance of Presence
You Can't Thank Your Donors Too Much!
An Interview with the Editors of Collecting Courage
Horror Stories from the Field
Answering Your Most Pressing Questions
Do Membership Programs Suppress Giving?
Does Your Team Even Want to Go Back to the Office?
You Can't Have Major Gifts Without Donor Offers
Leading through Change
Finding Good Planned Giving Leads
The Three Things Leaders Get Wrong About Mid-Level
Five Things Every Fundraiser Should Do in the Summer
Embracing Overhead
Not Everything We Say Is True
How Likeable Are You?
The Donor Engagement Plan
No Outcomes, No Income
Seven Ways to Stand Out with your Donors
From $1,000 to $100,000
More Myths in Major Gifts
Answers to Your Burning Questions
New Year's Resolutions, Part 2
New Year's Resolutions, Part One
The Six Economic Realities of Major Gifts
The Donor-Facing Back Office
The Biggest Barrier to Major Gift Success
Dispelling the Myths about Major Gifts
Equity in the Non-Profit Workforce
What is The Veritus Way?
Strategies to End the Year Strong
Fifteen Questions to Help You Go Deeper with Your Donor
Ten Ways to Get Rid of Your Donor
Should MGOs Get Bonuses?
Five Reasons MGOs Fail
What’s Wrong with University Major Gift Fundraising?
Now is the Time to Invest in Major Gifts
The Sky is Falling!
Are All Your Eggs in One Basket? Diversifying your revenue streams
Forget Pivoting — It's Time to Really Change
Planned Giving in a Time of Crisis
Getting your Coronavirus Story Right and Asking
Answers to Your COVID-19 Crisis Questions
Special Episode — How Should I Think about Fundraising in a Crisis?
The Importance of Administrative Assistants
Bad Bosses
The Spirituality of Major Gift Fundraising
What's Wrong with Planned Giving?
What’s Wrong with University Major Gift Fundraising?
It's Good to Have Older Donors
Is Your Manager Ignorant About Major Gifts?
Do You Know the ROI of Your Donor Portfolio?
Can We All Just Get Along?
Keeping Good Major Gift Officers
Changing Your Non-Profit Culture, with Mark Rovner
Major Donors and Capital Campaigns – with Amy Eisenstein
Discover Your Major Donors' Passions and Interests
Creating Compelling Donor Offers, with guest Tom Ahern
Using Technology to Connect with Donors – with Greg Warner
Inspiration for Major Gifts Work – with Frank Mumford
New Ideas to Cultivate Your Major Donors
What Does It Take to be a Great MGO?
Why Do We 'Qualify' Major Donors?
Current Donors Aren't Prospects: Thinking Differently About Donors
The Major Gifts Pipeline, with guest Jeff Brooks
Why doesn't the word "Annual" belong in a MGO's vocabulary?