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Welcome
Donor Management Model
1: Identify
2: Research
3: Plan
4: Engage
5: Ask
6: Close
7: Thank
8: Steward
Management of the Function
Getting Started
Develop & Share Your Vision
Creating a Plan, Evaluation & Measuring
Building and Keeping the Fund Development Team
Engaging Board and Volunteers
Alphabetical Listing of Tools
Agency Connection
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Key Principles

Every donor's relationship with Big Brothers Big Sisters is driven by the values, needs and motivations of the donor.
Every donor's relationship is managed through the Big Brothers Big Sisters donor management model.
Every donor has a unique key worker responsible for maximizing that donor's relationship with Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Donor Management Model
A consistent, step-by-step process to ensure effective relationship building with all donors.
Technology Solutions
World-class solutions for effective donor management, tracking of key metrics and ensuring efficiencies.
People & Performance Management
Create a culture that values our best people, attracts quality talent and increases retention through skill development and professional growth opportunities.
Volunteer Leadership
Increase success through partnerships with senior volunteer leadership working with and through them to achieve our objectives.

If this is your first time to the Fund Development Toolkit, please take a few minutes to explore what is available and bookmark this site so you can return as needed.

Most of the tools are applicable to all donors. However, some are specific to certain types of donors, such as corporate, foundation, and individual donors.

In addition to the Fund Development Toolkit, self-paced online trainings on the Big Brothers Big Sisters donor management model are available through the BBBS Learning Center.

For Fund Development support, please contact the BBBS Agency Resource Center.

We envision the Fund Development Toolkit as a live resource that is continually responsive to your feedback and ideas. Please send us your thoughts and ideas, resources, documents, links, and any other tools that you think will strengthen our Toolkit content and user-friendliness.

Email any suggestions or feedback to Laurel McCombs at laurel.mccombs@bbbs.org.