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Copley Raff - a leading voice and strategist
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Comprehensive fundraising management and campaign consulting for nonprofit organizations throughout the nation
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Dynamic, aspirational, detailed, inclusive, living planning process.
Planned, feasible, realistic, engaging, stakeholder inclusive, leadership and case centric.
Directed, growth and action oriented, pivotal adjustments and initiatives, tools, sustainable.
Methodical, researched, stakeholder inclusive, relationship centric, actionable.
Exclusively created and refined by Copley Raff, the Master Gift OfficerTM is the ultimate opportunity for Advancement professional development. Master Gift Officers are prepared to revolutionize donor relationships, execute successful asks, and ensure sweeping enhancements to fundraising outcomes.
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“As the healthcare landscape and needs of hospitals change, so too must fundraising priorities and techniques.“
-Larry G. Raff, MPH
President, Copley Raff
Novel Perspectives and Strategies for Clinician Fundraising Partnership
One of Yogi Berra’s famous utterances – When you get to a fork in the road… take it – has always resonated with me because it characterizes the forced choices we have to regularly make in our advancement work. Whether we like it or not, or whether we know it or not, we are constantly faced with forks in the road that give us options that may make or break our fundraising program, or at least slow its progress.
I don’t want to throw cold water on your fine day, but it is reasonable to start thinking about the inevitable economic downturn that may be just over the horizon. Markets are cyclical and that means there are regular recessions every seven-ten years. Recent history includes downturns around the 1986 tax reform, the dotcom bust of the late 1990s, 9/11’s aftermath, and the burst of the housing bubble in 2008-2009.
It has become clear to me after working with many dozens of organizations and training on building major donor portfolios, that the word “portfolio” means many different things to advancement professionals. I will try and capture the range of definitions being applied in the field.
There is a BIG question you can ask your CEO and your board that can define the readiness and help position your organization to raise real money. The answer will help you to define your next strategic advancement moves and/or your next career move. The BIG question to leadership is “what would you do with […]
