The 5% That Give 95%

What we Do

• We work with any size organization to identify potential large donors, then train volunteers and staff to approach those donors in a respectful and gracious way.
  
  
• We provide interviewing scripts that produce amazing results.
  
  
• We use a proven volunteer model to raise large gifts. Our process builds volunteer led endowment programs.
  
  
• What size results? A client raised $3.5 million campaign dollars in 37 visits. Using this natural and respectful process, our experience is that 40% of those interviewed make an estate gift.

Our Crucial Ingredients

• Visit, face to face, your very best prospects,
  some will give you everything . . .
  
  
• A non technical approach to training.
  
  
• A non campaign approach to bequest
  and major gifts.
  
  
• Computerized measuring of prospect responses
  and action plans.
  

Why this Approach?

• Most vibrant nonprofits don't have the budget to hire staff to visit qualified prospects.
  
  
• MGI provides as little or as much help as needed.

"We couldn't afford to hire a planned giving officer and I didn't have the time to learn the technical details of planned giving. Meanwhile, we were losing sores of elderly alumni every year. MGI's process enabled us to visit with 250 alumni over three years -- with incredible results!"
-Vice President Institutional Advancement

"You discover what the ultimate outcome will be on the first visit. It becomes very clear what you should do next."
-Senior Development Officer

• Augustana College
• Bethal College
• Catherine McAuley Health Center
• Dunwoody Institute
• Girl Scouts of Greater Minneapolis
• Hamline University
• Luther Seminary
• Minnesota Orchestral Association
• Park Nicollet Medical Foundation

• Pioneer Retirement Community
• St. Olaf College
• Salvation Army
• Shattuck-St. Mary's School
• Stout University Foundation
• The Saint Paul Foundation
• United Hospital Foundation
• University of Minnesota Libraries
• University of Richmond
• Western Maryland College
• Presbyterian Homes of Minnesota

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