Donor Personality Types
Inspiring Your Wise Donors to Give
Inspiring Your Wise Donors to Give The Enneagram is a distinguished personality typing system that sorts people by their core mental, emotional, and behavioral patterns. By learning the drives, strengths, weaknesses, and desires of each type, we can learn to interact with each other more effectively. More specifically, church leaders can get the most out…
Read MoreInspiring Your Engaging Donors to Give
Inspiring Your Engaging Donors to Give The Enneagram is a distinguished personality typing system that sorts people by their core mental, emotional, and behavioral patterns. By learning the drives, strengths, weaknesses, and desires of each type, we can learn to interact with each other more effectively. More specifically, church leaders can get the most out of…
Read MoreThe Purposeful Donor: Everything You Need to Know
The Purposeful Donor: Everything You Need to Know Leading a congregation in service takes a powerful spiritual vision. This is something church pastors understand and expect in their ministerial careers. Supporting the financial health of the church, however, is often out of their comfort zone. There’s help available through solutions that help you understand the…
Read MoreDonor Personality Type 6: The Principled Donor
Donor Personality Type 6: The Principled Donor Synopsis: The following type of Donor is a blessing to have. They are commonly known as a Type Six, or A Principled Donor. Read on to find out how to recognize a Principled Type Donor, and how to best engage with them. +++ As an experienced church leader, you…
Read MoreGet To Know The Decisive Donor (Type 4)
Get To Know The Decisive Donor (Type 4) Synopsis: In this article, we define The Decisive Donor. Find out what the most common traits are for this personality, why they are important for your church to understand. How and why do they give to your cause? Now that you pastors understand that Type Four personalities represent a Decisive…
Read MoreType Five: The Wise Donor
Type Five: The Wise Donor In our recent Donor Personality Test, we introduced you to Nine Different Personalities, based on the Enneagram Test. Each of these types have different traits, and learning about them will help you as pastors and church managers to understand, guide, and grow them on their donor journey. In this article, we look…
Read MoreHow to Appeal to Type 3: The Driven Donor
How to Appeal to Type 3: The Driven Donor In this article, we continue our in-depth series based on the Donor Personality Test, covering the Nine Types of Personalities. The Type Three Donor represents the Driven Donor. Now that you church leaders and pastors know how to define them, the next step is understanding how to appeal to this type.…
Read MoreType Seven: The Spontaneous Donor
Type Seven: The Spontaneous Donor In our Donor personality test, we gave you pastors an easy way to recognize the traits of various personalities, based on the Enneagram Test. The purpose of this is so that you can tweak your giving strategy accordingly. As not all donors are the same, the methods that you use in your fundraising and…
Read MoreType Six: The Principled Donor
Type Six: The Principled Donor Continuing with our in-depth study of various donor personalities, today we look into the sixth type of donor. In churches and communities, this type is known as the Principled Donor. If you want to ensure successful church growth, it all starts with understanding your congregation. Knowing what appeals to them and how…
Read MoreHow to Appeal to the Principled Donor
How to Appeal to the Principled Donor Principled Donors are the sixth type in our Donor Personality Quiz. To learn more about them and the eight other types, please read our in-depth article, based on the Enneagram test, here. This type is best known for being engaging and responsible, although they can also appear anxious and suspicious at times.…
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