80 | How to Get Donors to Say Yes Faster in Ministry Fundraising

About this episode

Lisa discusses the challenges of donor commitment in ministry fundraising and shares strategies to encourage faster yeses from donors.

What happens when the donors you were relying on end up not giving… or stop after a little while? It can throw everything off. Logistically, financially, emotionally. You start wondering what happened, why it’s taking so long for people to commit, and whether fundraising is always supposed to feel this difficult. So why does it take some donors months — or even years — to finally say yes? In this episode, Lisa walks through the 3 biggest things that help donors support your ministry mor...

People in this episode

Host: Lisa Diaz

Topics covered

• fundraising
• donor engagement
• ministry support
• nonprofit strategies
• commitment challenges

Keywords

• donors
• fundraising
• ministry
• commitment
• nonprofit
• support
• challenges

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