Joanne Oppelt

July 31, 2022

Joanne Oppelt Raises First Six-Figure Gift for Caring Contact Suicide Prevention

Joanne Oppelt Raises First Six-Figure Gift for Caring Contact Suicide Prevention reveals how one fundraising veteran helped a life-saving charity secure a life-saving gift. Here’s how it worked: Caring Contact, a regional suicide prevention agency with a budget of around $300,000, needed several years of large cash influxes. Board giving was steady, accounting for about 5 percent of individual donations. To raise money, the agency conducted two direct

October 30, 2022

Good Board Members – How Do You Find Them?

Good Board Members – How Do You Find Them? is Joanne Oppelt’s take on one of nonprofit’s great mysteries. Here’s what Joanne has to share: This article contains expert tips on how to find good board members. In my experience, most board members are good people who know next to nothing about nonprofit governance. Yet, your board is the most valuable leadership asset your nonprofit has. Board members teach the community how to interact with […]

June 8, 2024

Joanne Oppelt, NANOE Member, Raises $1m Gift

Joanne Oppelt, NANOE Member, Raises $1m Major Gift is a celebration of my colleague and friend Joanne Oppelt. I’m Jimmy LaRose, and as the architect of the Major Gifts Ramp-Up Model and co-founder of the National Association of Nonprofit Organizations & Executives I’m pleased to share that this MGRU & NANOE collaboration has resulted in saved and transformed lives. Joanne’s commitment to NANOE’s principals and her deployment

December 17, 2024

PRESS RELEASE Major Gifts Ramp-Up THE BOOK w Jimmy LaRose INSIDE CHARITY

Press Release – Major Gifts Ramp-Up THE BOOK Goes On Sale January 1, 2025

PRESS RELEASE – WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 17, 2024 – Nonprofit fundraising veterans Joanne Oppelt and Jimmy LaRose will release their new groundbreaking work Major Gifts Ramp-Up: Money Is Oxygen—Without It Charities Can’t Breathe on January 1, 2025. The authors are pressing for new charitable sector traditions, not only during the holidays but throughout the year. “Money is more important than mission. Donors are more important than clients,” they state. Oppelt and LaRose are considered […]