Are You Ready for a Campaign? Not Without a Culture of Asking and More

Everyone’s excited at the thought of raising lots of money. But before you even do a feasibility study to find out if people will contribute, you need to be sure you’re ready.

Is your board on board? Are you in a strong financial position? Do you have the bandwidth? Who’s asking at your organization today? Is it all falling on the director of development, executive director, or one or two diehard board members?

Join Andrea Kihlstedt and Brian Saber to learn:

• How to evaluate your organization’s strengths and challenges leading up to a campaign
• What to work on first to make sure you’re ready
• How to put cultivation and solicitation front and center
• The top 5 reasons campaigns succeed and the top 5 they fail

Andrea Kihlstedt’s company, Capital Campaign Masters, specializes in helping organizations figure out whether they’re ready for a campaign and working with them to address everything that might stand in their way. She co-founded Asking Matters with Brian Saber and is now Asking Matters’ resident campaign expert.

Introducing Andrea Kihlstedt, Asking Matters Capital Campaign Expert

I’m delighted to welcome Andrea Kihlstedt back to Asking Matters. As you may know, Andrea and I co-founded Asking Matters in 2010. In 2014, I took over as Andrea went on to write another book, build a new company called Capital Campaign Masters, and continue her great consulting around the country.

This summer I decided to bring on a group of subject experts to provide important content for the Asking Matters community. Since Andrea literally wrote the book on capital campaigns (soon to be in its fourth edition!), there was no question I wanted her to be our campaign expert.

Andrea will blog throughout the year, provide tips for our newsletter, lead a webinar or two, and more. If you don’t know Andrea and her work, take a look at capitalcampaignmasters.com and andreakihlstedt.com to find out more. Andrea’s an avid blogger so be sure to sign up for her mailing list.

Welcome Andrea!