{"id":46706,"date":"2022-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/?p=46706"},"modified":"2024-05-17T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:49:56","slug":"webinar-major-gifts-asking-in-the-age-of-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/blog\/webinar-major-gifts-asking-in-the-age-of-zoom\/","title":{"rendered":"[Webinar] Major Gifts:  Asking in the Age of Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, major gift work revolved around in-person donor visits &#8211; and for many of us, that&#8217;s how we would prefer to make those big asks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, even before the virtual shift, this approach was creating significant barriers for smaller nonprofits as well as wear-and-tear on traveling major gift officers. The pandemic brought both donors and development professionals to a new place, demonstrating that major gift work can, indeed, take place online. The expectation is that donor preference will prevail going forward&#8211;and that a number of donors will prefer to continue visiting online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key takeaways include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ways to set-up the donor visit on Zoom <\/li><li>Two ways to make the ask (which can be applied to any visit format)  <\/li><li>More confidence<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">About your Speaker<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Diane Remin, President @ MajorDonors.com<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Named a top-25 fundraising consultant by Philanthropy Media in 2016, Diane Remin, MBA, is the President of MajorDonors.com. She founded MajorDonors.com eleven years ago to help small-to-mid-sized nonprofits with limited resources boost their revenues, with an eye toward major gifts. She has served on the boards of The Food Project, Fuller Craft Museum, and Cambridge Family &amp; Children\u2019s Service and is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Planned Giving Group of New England. She likes to say: \u201cGiving is good for your health\u201d\u2014and can back it up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, major gift work revolved around in-person donor visits &#8211; and for many of us, that&#8217;s how we would prefer to make those big asks. But, even before the virtual shift, this approach was creating significant barriers for smaller nonprofits as well as wear-and-tear on traveling major gift officers. The pandemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":53135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webinar"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/untitled-design-3-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/untitled-design-3-600x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Olivia Hosey","author_link":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/author\/ohosey\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.causevox.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}