Major Gifts Essentials

Major Gifts Essentials is an 8-week course designed to develop your team’s authentic approach to major gift fundraising. Learn strategies and techniques from an expert major gifts fundraiser, in a program designed to bring out the best in you.

What is Major Gifts Essentials?

Engaged students learning how to raise major gifts

Rootstock’s Major Gift Essentials Course is designed for major gifts professionals with less than 5 years of direct major gifts experience, but could be invaluable for teams aiming to deepen their expertise in high-impact fundraising and contribute meaningfully to their organizations’ missions.

Over a period of 8-weeks, we will cover the following topics:

  1. Identifying Major Gift Prospects

  2. Cultivation Strategies

  3. Stewardship and Donor Retention

  4. Crafting the Bespoke Case for Support

  5. Solicitation Techniques

  6. Building a Major Gifts Culture

  7. Major Gifts Ethics

  8. Major Gifts as a “Team Sport”

With Decades of high level major and principal gifts experience, including leadership of $100M+ Strategic Initiatives at some of the World’s greatest organizations, Rootstock brings a focused approach to major donor fundraising that is second to none.

Our Major Gifts Essentials Course helps empower your fundraisers to develop their own unique fundraising style, so they can grow along with your organization.

-Brad Smith, Founder Rootstock Philanthropy

Find out of our 8-week Major Gifts Essentials Program is right for your organization

Contact us to learn more and schedule an Orientation Session.