The number one tool the visionary uses to stop chasing and start attracting resources is storytelling. Storytelling is the one tool that will catapult your fundraising to wonderful new levels. 

As visionaries harnessing the ancient power of stories, we give voice to the voiceless. Shining a light on someone’s story, we can:

• Help address inequitable systems.

• Change mainstream narratives.

• Give opportunities to understand other people’s lived experience.

What can go wrong?

An old African proverb says it so well:

Until the lion learns how to write, the tale will always glorify the hunter.

The proverb conveys a powerful message about the importance of perspective and who gets to tell a story or shape a narrative.

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When visionaries don't understand their role in bringing hope to the world, they hate fundraising.

I have heard visionaries lament the need for fundraising. I have heard board members say, "I wish we didn't talk about money so much." I have heard pastors say, "I HATE talking about money."

I think the sentiment is misguided. 

It is healthy when visionaries need money. 

When forward-thinking organizations need money it is a good thing.

Living is expensive. Having a living vision is expensive. It is death that is cheap.

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As we approach the year’s end, uncertainty rules.

When times are good, donors give. 

When times are bad, donors give. 

But when times are uncertain, donors wait.

Uncertainty makes people a little less responsive to your fundraising. And donors have ample reason to feel uncertain.

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To fund a spiritual rest area for truck drivers, Father Adelir Antônio de Carli tied himself to over 1,000 party balloons. After taking off in a chair attached to the balloons, he reached an altitude of 6,000 meters before losing contact with authorities.

Read de Carli's story

Carli’s story is an extreme example of the high price of event fundraising.

An overemphasis on event fundraising can kill your major gift fundraising.

The ROI for most fundraising events is about 50% (read here).

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The one thing that will impact your beneficiaries the most is your visionary fundraising capacity.

Visionaries attract resources like a moth to a flame. Visionaries don’t believe money is the answer to their problems, they know that vision is!

To help you grow in your visionary capacity, I have written Visionary Fundraising. In it, you will learn:

• The five attributes that make up the visionary superpower
• The number one tool that visionaries use to spearhead a movement
• A simple formula for creating and telling stories that break the curse of being ignored
• The ancient rule that visionaries like Barack Obama and Winston Churchill used to break through the noise of culture and be heard
• The ancient admonition that all visionaries throughout history have adhered to that made them attractive
• The three kinds of stories visionary fundraisers tell

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To your visionary success!

David

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You can read Edwin Reinhold's article HERE.

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Step 3 in the Minor Touches Major Impact fundraising method: Establish Your Platform.

Very simply, a platform is the thing you have to stand on to get heard. It’s your stage. But unlike a stage in the theater, today’s platform is not built of wood or concrete or perched on a grassy hill. Today’s platform is built of people. Contacts. Connections. Followers.

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ALWAYS tell your stories from the inside out...

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One of the pieces of collateral that will help you become the attractive expert, step one of the MTMI Fundraising method, is your "Case For Support."

This is not just something that organizations do for capital campaigns. Your organization should have one for your mission that is updated annually. 

I have a few case documents that you can look at here:
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Step one of the Minor Touches Major Impact Fundraising Method is to become the attractive expert. There are four pieces of collateral that will ignite your ability to speak as this attractive expert:

• Beneficiary Avatar
• Donor Avatar
• Volunteer Avatar
• Values & Guiding Principles

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