Hey Fundraiser!
Hosted by Mary · Mary Petersen
5.0from 32 ratings
- 84
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- 32
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 224
- YouTube views
About Hey Fundraiser!
Welcome to Hey Fundraiser, the podcast for nonprofit Executive Directors and major gift officers who are done guessing. Each week, host Mary Petersen pulls back the curtain on what actually works in major gifts. Not theory. Not whiteboard frameworks. Real scripts, real strategy, and the exact moves you can use in your next donor meeting. Mary spent 25+ years as a working major gift officer and built a methodology that closes 5 and 6-figure gifts in months, not years, by going deep with a focused portfolio instead of chasing volume. If you've ever frozen up before an ask, stared at a "wish list" of donors with no idea who to call first, or wondered why the industry keeps telling you a major gift takes 18 months to close, this is your show. You'll leave every episode with one clear thing to do on Monday morning. Hit follow and start building real momentum.
- Publisher
- Mary Petersen
- Category
- business · education · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Jan 2023
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 84 episodes have a transcript.
9 Oct 2026
Your Donor Isn’t Stuck. Your Cultivation Strategy Is.
2 Oct 2026
Stop Selling Programs: How to Position Offers and Outcomes So Donors Understand Them
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
You Found a Great Major Gift Prospect. Now How the Heck Do You Get in the Door?
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You Found a Great Major Gift Prospect. Now How the Heck Do You Get in the Door?
Published 25 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Like give people something worth saying yes to. So you want to use your relationship map. Like before you cold email a major prospect like five times, I want you to ask yourself, who knows this person? This is one of the most underused strategies in fundraising. We have a full board of people. We have executives. We have volunteers. We have donors. We have staff. You have alumni. You have physicians. You've got community leaders. And somehow the fundraiser is sitting alone in their office thinking, I really need to reach out to Susan. Ask everyone. I love putting a prospect list in front of leadership and saying, do you happen to know any of these people? […]
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- YouTube views
- 224
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 27 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100
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- Quality
- 66
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 66
- Engagement
- 51
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Mary host the show. Published by Mary Petersen.
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