The 5 Most Important Questions for Nonprofit Organizations (part 1 of a series)

The 5 Most Important Questions for Nonprofit Organizations (part 1 of a series)

By Tom Wilson Major Gifts Guru

How can you get your organize to focus on its mission? To clarify it so it’s simple and understandable to major gift donors? So your board members can remember it in social settings?

How can you prove the impact of gifts to your organization? What’s the evidence your organization benefits the community? Society?

What’s your plan for the future? Where do you need funding to realize this vision?

These are some of the issues that Peter Drucker’s 5 Most Important Questions force you to deal with.

I had the pleasure of participating in a 5 Most Important Questions facilitator network training session in San Diego recently. It was presented by the Leader to Leader Institute and sponsored by the Bright China Social Fund. 36 of us from throughout the U.S., China, Korea, South Africa, Mexico, and the United Kingdom spent our weekend together sharing insights and facilitation tips.

The 5 Most Important Questions

• #1 What is your mission?


• #2 Who is our customer?


• #3 What our customer value?


• #4 What are our results?


• #5 What is our plan?

In this series of blog posts, we’ll review each of the questions and why it’s important for your organization to answer them in order to set up a Winning Gifts major gifts program where your donors really do feel like winners.

This article was the first of two. Click here to read the second: The 5 Most Important Questions (part 2 of a series)

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