How Healthy is Your Donor Pipeline?

About this episode

Catherine Heitz New discusses the importance of a healthy donor pipeline for fundraising growth and how organizations can evaluate their pipeline's strength.

If individual giving is critical to fundraising growth, the next question is simple: how healthy is the donor pipeline feeding that growth? This week on the podcast, RSC CEO Catherine Heitz New takes a close look at the components of a healthy donor pipeline and how organizations can assess whether their pipeline is strong, developing, or at risk.

People in this episode

Host: Catherine Heitz New

Topics covered

• donor pipeline
• fundraising growth
• non-profit management

Keywords

• individual giving
• donor assessment
• fundraising strategy

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