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by Keith Greer, CFRE
Welcome to "Let's Talk Fundraising" with Keith Greer, CFRE! This podcast is your go-to resource for mastering the essentials of fundraising while discovering how innovative tools and technology can supercharge your efforts. Whether you're a new fundraiser looking to level up your skills or a seasoned professional seeking timely reminders and fresh insights, each episode is packed with practical advice, creative ideas, and inspiring stories. Join Keith as he explores the core principles that drive successful fundraising and uncovers the latest strategies to make your job easier, more enjoyable, and incredibly impactful. From relationship-building and storytelling to leveraging the newest tech, "Let's Talk Fundraising" is here to help you transform your approach and achieve remarkable results for your organization.
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- 4 days ago25 min
Your Development Office Should Lead the AI Policy Conversation
Register for the AI Policy Development webinar. AI is already inside your fundraising work, whether your organization has admitted it or not. You can see it in the draft that comes back a little too fast, a little too polished, and somehow less specific to the moment. And when donor communications start to feel like “everyone and no one,” the problem isn’t style. It’s trust. We start with a scene from the HBO show Hacks where a tech investor tries to sell a comedian on using AI to gene...
- 1 weeks ago20 min
The Knock on the Window: What Memorial Gifts Are Really Telling You
I recorded this episode on the Sunday before Memorial Day, thinking about an event called Celebration of Life that I helped build on the Big Island of Hawai'i. Lanterns on Reed's Bay. The Hawaiian nose flute. More than three thousand people on the shore singing Hawai'i Aloha at dusk. And what it taught me about what people are really doing when they make a gift in memory of someone they've lost. This episode is about memorial giving, and specifically about what most fundraisers miss when a me...
- May 4, 202621 min
What I Actually Learned at AFP ICON (And What the AI Vendors Won't Tell You)
Keith just got back from AFP ICON in San Diego, and this episode is his honest debrief. From a late-night reunion dinner with his AFP Leadership Institute cohort (including a practical tip for fundraisers who travel for donor visits) to leading one of the conference's opening sessions on making conferences actually matter in your organization, Keith shares what stuck with him and why. He also shares what he saw in the AI sessions, and he's not pulling punches. A lot of what's being sold as cu...
- Apr 27, 202625 min
If You Wait Until You Feel Ready, You'll Never Start
This is the episode where we stop painting the picture and start talking about what happens next. If you've been listening to this series for a few weeks and something has started to click, this one is for you. You've recognized the moments. You've said "yeah, that's me" more than once. And now there's a quieter question underneath it all: are you going to do something about this, or keep circling? Keith opens with a story from earlier in his career, sitting in his supervisor's office, holdin...
- Apr 20, 202628 min
3 Things to Define Before Every Major Gift Donor Meeting
You've had the donor meeting. It went fine. The conversation flowed, the donor was warm, you covered a lot of ground. And now you're sitting in the parking lot wondering if any of it actually moved the relationship forward. That quiet uncertainty after a visit almost always traces back to the same problem: walking in with a direction instead of a strategy. In this episode, I share the one preparation habit that changed how I lead every donor conversation, and why I wish someone had made it th...
- Apr 13, 202619 min
Think AI Won’t Work for You? Let’s Talk About That.
If you’ve been listening to this series and thinking… “This sounds interesting… but I’m not sure it would actually work for me…” This episode is for you. Because that hesitation you’re feeling? It’s not random. And it’s not a sign that you’re behind. It’s actually pointing to the exact places where your work matters most, your time, your donors, your relationships, your results. In this episode, I’m walking through what I’ve been hearing from fundraisers over the last few weeks, the quiet “ye...
- Apr 6, 202631 min
The Moment I Knew My Fundraising Was Actually Working
For months, I was doing everything I thought I was supposed to do as a major gift officer. I was reaching out. I was having meetings. I was putting in the work. But nothing was closing. And the hardest part wasn’t the lack of results. It was not knowing if what I was doing was actually working. In this episode, I’m sharing the moment that changed everything, and how I went from second-guessing my work to having complete clarity and confidence in what I was doing. You’ll hear how I: Moved from...
- Mar 30, 202630 min
Why Your Fundraising Outreach Isn’t Working Like It Used To
There’s a moment in fundraising where you start to feel it. You’re doing the work. You’re following up. You’re being thoughtful in your outreach. And still… things just aren’t moving the way they used to. Response rates are slower. Conversations take longer to start. What used to feel straightforward now feels heavier. It’s easy to assume the problem is in the execution. Maybe the message needs to be stronger. Maybe the research needs to go deeper. Maybe you just need to try harder. But what ...
About Let's Talk Fundraising
Welcome to "Let's Talk Fundraising" with Keith Greer, CFRE! This podcast is your go-to resource for mastering the essentials of fundraising while discovering how innovative tools and technology can supercharge your efforts. Whether you're a new fundraiser looking to level up your skills or a seasoned professional seeking timely reminders and fresh insights, each episode is packed with practical advice, creative ideas, and inspiring stories. Join Keith as he explores the core principles that drive successful fundraising and uncovers the latest strategies to make your job easier, more enjoyable, and incredibly impactful. From relationship-building and storytelling to leveraging the newest tech, "Let's Talk Fundraising" is here to help you transform your approach and achieve remarkable results for your organization.
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