Donor Personality Types

The First Stage: DISCOVER Stage One: DISCOVER The first stage requires you to be open-minded and flexible. In the First Stage this stage, you must identify who your ideal donors are and discover the best places to find them. You don’t want to have a pre-conceived idea of people. However, identifying your target audience or…

The Purposeful Donor Church members and donors have specific needs. As a church leader, you are aware of the varying personalities that enter your church doors for every service. However, what many leaders overlook is that in order to reach a donor effectively and teach them more about giving, it’s important to understand their personal characteristics. In…

Type 3: The Driven Donor If you landed on this page, you might have taken our Donor Personality Test, based on the 9 Types of Personalities. The answers to the questions we asked would have then summed up the likelihood of a Type Three personality. This represents the Driven Donor. Let’s explore more about this…

Motivating The Engaging Donor Each of your church members and donors will have specific needs, which vary as they grow in service and in time with your fellowship. As a church leader, knowing how and why people do what they do is essential for growth. We have learned that, in order to grow a donor effectively and secure…

The Purposeful Donor and the Spontaneous Donor (Type 1 and 7) In this article on Donor Personalities, we based the Purposeful Donor and the Spontaneous Donor on the Enneagram Types One and Seven. If you are a lead pastor, communications pastor, or non-profit director, you may have one or a few of these types in your church and community. In…

The Purposeful Donor and the Driven Donor (Types 1 and 3) In this article based on the Enneagram personalities, we examine Type Ones and Threes, who are sometimes mistakenly thought to have similar traits. Both types are efficient, highly organized, and highly task-oriented, and both often set aside their own feelings to get things done. Their shared…

The Purposeful Donor and the Motivated Donor (Type 1 and Type 8) Many personality tests can help pastors understand donors better. In this series, we base our Nine Donor personalities on the Enneagram personality test, one of the most commonly used tests today. The Enneagram name comes from a nine-sided star polygon, and each of its points represents one…

The Engaging Donor and the Wise Donor In this article on Donor Personalities, we find a new challenge: double opposites! Take a look at the unique traits of these types of donors and examine ways to help them grow. The Enneagram Twos and Fives are known as the Engaging Donor and the Wise Donor. These two…

The Purposeful Donor and the Wise Donor Are you on the journey to grow your church outreach and ministries step by step? Small progress every day leads to long-term success! If you need more advice for growing donors, our latest blog posts dive deeper into this topic. Follow our social pages and sign up for newsletters to get the…