"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
-Andy Grove
"You are what your record says you are."
- Bill Parcels
Feldsteinco LLC
Feldsteinco
Scale
Fund-raising 5.0 uses advanced ideas and strategic knowledge beyond the static methods of earlier eras. It has become clear that fund-raising success is largely explained by the interplay of just 9 things. Laser-like focus on these 9 things has an enormous impact on future success and progress. Growth is remarkably sensitive to the 9 factors in the Feldstein Scale:
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Board composition, leadership, generosity, level of consciousness and engagement
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CEO Leadership and absence of visible and invisible liabilities and barriers to progress within an institution’s culture – their Action Logic
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Institutional aspirations, mission, and positioning of the brand
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Size of lead gifts and robustness of high probability donors/prospects
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Power of fund-raising strategy and thinking
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Having the right donor products priced appropriately
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Recipe, content, processes and technology to engage strategic donors
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Mindset that anything is possible and all problems are solvable
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Focus on maximizing Donor Lifetime Value (DLV)