Fundraising Insights

Donor relationships are difficult to maintain without passion – because it is difficult to overcome the donor’s distractions, apathy, and poor reading skills with anything less.

People’s lives tend to be average, unexciting. They may have a bright spot here or there, but by and large they are shuffling along day by day without many thrills.

In many, many people there is something crying out for passion – for something to feel intensely about. They want to believe that there is something worth being passionate about – and if you speak passionately to them, they are likelier to open that critical channel of communication.

This is not to say that you have to pound a shoe on the table in your appeal letters. You do not have to pretend to be something you’re not. But even a more rational, less emotional person at the helm of a ministry should feel a certain quiet sort of passion about his work – and that passion needs to come through.