Can You Find Me a Great List of Major Gift Prospects?
The short answer is yes. The more useful answer is that a list is not a pipeline — and knowing… Read More »Can You Find Me a Great List of Major Gift Prospects?
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5 habits of development directors who succeed with wealth screening for major gifts
Do you wish you could update your database records, sharpen your segmentation for annual fund messaging, and finally identify your next major gift prospects — all without blowing your budget? You’re not alone.
Does a Wealth Screening Help Find Campaign Prospects? Here’s the Honest Answer.
A wealth screening is a service that takes your existing donor database and matches your records against external data sources to produce wealth indicators — things like real estate holdings, stock ownership, business affiliations, and estimated net worth. The result is typically a wealth score or capacity rating assigned to each record.
Are My Donors Okay? How the K-Shaped Economy Is Splitting Your Prospect Pool in Two
A note on the mixed economic signals reshaping major gift fundraising Retail sales are on track to hit $5.6 trillion… Read More »Are My Donors Okay? How the K-Shaped Economy Is Splitting Your Prospect Pool in Two
Top 10 Capacity Rating Insights Every Fundraiser Should Know
Gift capacity ratings promised to revolutionize fundraising. Suddenly, thousands of records could be matched to wealth data and assigned scores. Your prospects could be assessed by their potential capacity in dollars. All that’s left to do is ask for the gift, right?
Your Prospect Profile Shouldn’t Feel Like a Vending Machine Transaction
You hit the “submit request” button. Three days later, a prospect profile lands in your inbox. You open it eagerly, and… it’s everything you already knew. Or worse—it’s missing the crucial piece of information you found on Google in 30 seconds.
Is Your Major Gift Pipeline Running Dry? Meet the A.I. Solution That Might Change Everything
Is your organization asking the same donors to support every campaign? Is your major gift pipeline drying up with fewer… Read More »Is Your Major Gift Pipeline Running Dry? Meet the A.I. Solution That Might Change Everything
The Big 5: Our Most Popular Blogs of the Year
At Aspire we hope you’re going crazy this December with an overwhelming response to Giving Tuesday, fielding major donors that want to give before December 31, and weaving big fundraising dreams for 2026. That’s why we’ve put together our top five most popular blogs for you as quick, clickable reads you can squeeze in when you take a well-deserved break.
Transformative Gift Opportunity with Family Offices
The number of family offices and their investable wealth has exploded over the past few years, but that isn’t the most exciting trend for fundraising. The exciting trend is the level of sophistication and intention behind their investing, which continues to evolve in ways that creates a tremendous opportunity for the organizations who can build successful, authentic relationships with these families.
How $83 Trillion Could Disrupt Traditional Fundraising – And What you Can Do About It
Why Your Next Major Donor Won’t Look Like Your Last: We’re standing at the edge of the largest wealth transfer in history—and most organizations aren’t ready.