The Art and Science of Asking for Money with Joan Garry

Published on October 10th, 2016

Brian Saber

President of Asking Matters
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It was a pleasure to be a guest on fellow fundraiser Joan Garry’s podcast this week! We discussed the 4 Asking Styles, and how to use your personal strengths and weaknesses to your advantage when asking for donations. Here’s what Joan had to say about the session:

nonprofits-are-messy-artwork-v2-640x640“When I started as the Executive Director at GLAAD a long time ago, I had no fundraising experience at all. Good thing I was an extrovert and a quick learner!

On the latest episode of the podcast, I had Brian Saber as my guest, fundraiser extraordinaire. He taught me that, in fact, you don’t have to be an extrovert at all to be a terrific fundraiser. Who knew?

Turns out there are four different styles of fundraising and your personality dictates which will work best for you (and which will result in failure.)

If you’re involved in fundraising at all — staff or board — you’ll want to listen to this.

Follow the link below to listen to the full recording on Joan’s site:

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What you’ll learn in this episode:

  • What to do if you have no fundraising experience whatsoever
  • The 4 different asking styles
  • Why you might do your best fundraising with a partner
  • How to create an institutional relationship with your donors (and why that’s critical)
  • Rules for board fundraising

Thanks for having me Joan, it was great talking with you!

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