By Rhen Hoehn, Director of Marketing

Someone told you it was time to start a planned giving program.

Maybe a parishioner died and left the parish an unexpected gift. Maybe the bishop asked every parish to name a planned giving contact. Or maybe you looked around and realized no one had ever inv...

2024 was a banner year for blogs over at Petrus Development. Whether you’re a fundraising rookie or a seasoned pro, these posts brought the heat, the heart, and the how-to. Let’s count them down in reverse order because, you know, suspense is everything. 😏

🥉 #3: “Do I Really Need to Meet Dono...

By Rhen Hoehn, Director of Marketing

Setting appropriate goals for a fundraiser can be overwhelming. Fundraisers have many different responsibilities, but they all lead to the same end goal - dollars raised.

Should we boil a fundraiser’s goals down to just the dollars raised for the year?

By Andrew Robison and Jamie Cappetta, President of Our Savior Parish and Caruso Catholic Center at the University of Southern California 

In the business world, setting goals, creating metrics and tracking progress is the name of the game if you want to succeed. Imagine if a Fortune 500 C...