It should not take you more than a year to close a major gift. The days of cultivating for 18+ months is OVER.  I hope this story inspires you to: embrace permission-based fundraisingtrim your portfolio so that you have 40-60 qualified prospectsgo deeper with fewer prospects, as opposed to shallow efforts with hundreds of prospectsSend a voicemail to Mary: https://www.speakpipe.com/heyfundraiser Major Donor Meeting Mastery: If you want to lean in to how to set yourself up for getting to ...

Building Your Major Gift Plan for a New Fiscal Year

Welcome to Hey Fundraiser, the podcast for nonprofit Executive Directors and major gift officers who are done guessing.Each week, host Mary Petersen pulls back the curtain on what actually works in major gifts. Not theory. Not whiteboard frameworks. Real scripts, real strategy, and the exact moves you can use in your next donor meeting. Mary spent 25+ years as a working major gift officer and built a methodology that closes 5 and 6-figure gifts in months, not years, by going deep with a focused portfolio instead of chasing volume.If you've ever frozen up before an ask, stared at a "wish list" of donors with no idea who to call first, or wondered why the industry keeps telling you a major gift takes 18 months to close, this is your show.You'll leave every episode with one clear thing to do on Monday morning. Hit follow and start building real momentum.