Karen Cochran on Cultivating Billion-Dollar Donor Relationships
“If it’s not in the system, it didn’t happen.” Karen Cochran has repeated this mantra throughout her 30+ year career in fundraising, and it’s advice that prospect research professionals need to hear—especially when pursuing...Member Update: The Evolution of Prospect Management
Doesn’t it just make common sense to start building a prospect management program with a policy? If you look at any of the Prospect Management Policy and Procedures publicly available on the internet, you’ll see that they start with policy and then outline the...
Announcing New Intro to Prospect Management Course
“It’s critical that researchers and fundraisers need to team up!” – Suzanne Barlow in #ChatBytes The Prospect Research Institute is pleased to announce that it is developing a workbook and course: Introduction to Prospect Management. This workbook and course will...How to Create Prospect Portfolios that Reach Fundraising Goals
What kind of skills does it take to do prospect management really well? If Suzanne Barlow is any indication, start with an education in information systems, add a voracious appetite for learning about wealth and giving, and top it off with a love of connecting people...