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Donor Management Coffee Talk: Relationship Engagement and Fundraising

This group discussion with your community foundation peers discusses donor relations and fundraising. Leverage your industry network to understand challenges and solutions around questions like:

  • What metrics are you reporting to your board? 
  • What is your best donor stewardship strategy? 
  • What are your biggest obstacles for successful donor relations and fundraising? How are you addressing them?

Transcript available upon request. email: webinars@Foundant.com

About the Author

Margaret is Foundant's Manager of Client Services, Strategic Advancement. Before joining Foundant, she spent much of her career on the road as a Major Gifts Officer. Most recently she was the Director of Development for George Washington University’s (GWU) School of Business where she managed a team of four frontline Major Gift Officers, in addition to contributing to a recently closed $1B Campaign, Making History, through her portfolio of principal and major gift level donors. Before GWU, Margaret worked at Georgetown University on the Major Gifts Team and with Grassroot Soccer Inc. in Cape Town, South Africa working on their grant writing and fundraising efforts. Margaret has a graduate certificate in Nonprofit Management from George Washington University and a B.A. in Religion from Middlebury College. She is actively involved with her alma matter serving as the D.C. Chair for the Alumni Interview Volunteer program for Seven Years before moving back to Montana and continuing her role as an alumni volunteer.

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