How Gift-Giving Can Make You A Better Fundraiser with Patrick Kucharson
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then you're in the right place. Let's get started. Hi everyone. Welcome back to Nonprofit Nation,
thrilled to be here with you today. I'm your host Julia Campbell, and today we're going to talk
about something that you might not think is truly meaningful to the sector. We're going to talk about
gift giving and why gift giving can help make you a better fundraiser, and I'm going to sort of
draw the lines between that. Now gift giving is one of the five love languages, not my love
language. My love language is words of affirmation and quality time, but it is hugely impactful when
you do it correctly. So good thing we have my brand new friend Patrick Kucharsen. He runs Better
Gift Coach, which is a free newsletter. That's a weekly one minute shortcut to always having
the greatest gift ideas well in advance. And each week he enjoys sharing a story of the best gift
someone has ever received, analyzing it, and providing guidance on how others can replicate it.
And his LinkedIn profile says that he is a B gift giver by nature, now coaching others
how to make it easier to give better gifts. So I really wanted to have Patrick on the podcast,
because I know that his work can help fundraisers and anyone trying to make an impact and affect
people. So Patrick, I'm really happy to have you here. Julia Campbell, the non-profit unicorn
extraordinaire. Thanks for having me. I was saying before we hit record that I was a huge fan of yours,
and then you were saying you're a new fan of mine. So we're just see words of affirmation.
Do you know my love language? That's the best gift you can give me. So I first heard of your
newsletter from the New York Times article, how to navigate gifting season while keeping your cool.
And I was intrigued. And then I'm a I subscribed to Real Simple. And I saw rave reviews about this
newsletter in Real Simple. And what I love is how you set up your newsletter. Like every week you
share a personal story and my audience knows and everyone should know that what you know how
passionate I am about storytelling. But you share a story about a great gift that someone has either
given or received. But you also contextualize it and you give people ideas on how to adapt it
to the people in your life. So can you tell us what is a gift consultant? Like what is a gift
giving coach and like how do you help your clients? Great question. I do see a distinction
between a gift consultant and a gift coach. I don't see many people branding themselves as a
gift coach, but that was important to me when I got in the space that, you know, I positioned
myself as someone who's empowering others to be better gift givers. Whereas a consultant might
have the connotation of you hire me and I'll find you a gift. That's exactly right. I sometimes think
that that's an important distinction between coaching consultant. And they're both important
services. I'm not I'm not hating on the other. It's just that's not the lane that I'm playing in.
How did you get into this work? And you did say that you have some nonprofit background and I
wonder if it impacted your decision to become a gift consultant or a gift coach? In a way it did.
Yeah. So the last seven years I spent at a local nonprofit to Cleveland, Ohio called Jumpstart Inc.
So Jumpstart, we always struggle for the words to explain it early. So I have I would call it a
nonprofit venture capital organization. So we support entrepreneurs and founders. So I spent
the last seven years and prior to those last seven years, I was an entrepreneur. So I was an
entrepreneur then took a break spent seven years at Jumpstart as a business advisor or a business
coach to entrepreneurs. And I learned a ton in those seven years and also learned how to navigate
the waters of working within a nonprofit and delivering a service within a nonprofit and always
trying to do more with less and always being mindful of funders, etc. But after that, I was ready to
early in 2022. I was ready to be an entrepreneur again. And I was exploring some of the pain points
or at least problems that I wanted to solve. And I really zeroed in on the pain points around
gift giving, because me myself as I branded myself a B minus gift giver by nature, I know what it
feels like to give a great gift. And I have for a while, but I don't always execute on that. So I
wanted to find shortcuts for my own personal use. And that's what I was able to do. So once I found
that shortcut, which we can get into, you know, I realized that I had a lot more to share with
others. And that's how I started the newsletter. Wow. So it's just it's so interesting. So you found
this pain point. Was this something that people were coming to you and saying that they struggled
with? So like any good entrepreneur should, I went out and did customer discovery. So I talked
to friends, family, and then people outside of my network, anyone would really talk to me
around the pain points of gift giving. So I asked them questions like, Hey, what kind of, you know,
how would you grade yourself as a gift giver? So that's where that B minus gift giver of great,
I give myself comes from. And that's okay. That doesn't mean you can't give a plus gifts.
There's just shortcuts. So yeah, I mean, that's kind of how I zeroed in on, Hey,
a lot of the pain points around gift giving could be solved with some simple shortcuts. And one of
the shortcuts that really spoke to me as a storyteller is just going out and finding the stories of
the greatest gifts people have ever received or given, and then copying them for my own use,
right? And then I found myself with this library of gift ideas. And it just kind of spoke to me to
to share it with the world through this free newsletter.
So you use storytelling as sort of the focal point for your newsletter. I always encourage
nonprofits to do the same. So how did you come across this idea to use storytelling to encourage
better gift giving? Sure. So I'll paint the picture. I'm running through the Cuyahoga National Park
and Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Where is that? It's just outside of Cleveland. It's in between
Cleveland Akron. So it's the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. I'm running through there on a day
where I just happened to pick up a new audiobook. And it was called Made to Stick by Chip and Dan
Heath. Great book. And part of their model, which they branded as success, the S at the end of
success was stories. And what they say is stories drive action through simulation. So that's what
we're doing. And then inspiration, the motivation to do so. And the story that they talk about a
lot is Jared from Subway and how that story just stuck with everyone. But it also, it was so
relatable. Whereas like, huh, you know, well, if that guy, he was a completely ordinary guy from
Indiana, I could do it. I could do it. And Subway can help me do it.
I love that. I really, really like that book. And they wrote another book called The Power of Moments,
which I think you would love because it's a lot about creating memorable experiences. And there's
a lot about gift giving, but also giving back or just paying attention to what really resonates
with people. So what makes a great gift story? Like, you collect these stories so that you can
kind of hack them and adapt them and use them to get inspiration for your own gift giving. So
what do you look for in a great gift story? Yeah, I think it has to have two parts. One,
it should be easily remembered. So I want someone six months down the road, 18 months down the road,
five years down the road to be in a situation where they need to give someone a gift. And they're
like, Hey, what about that one story that I read that one time in a better gift coach newsletter?
So that's the first piece that I try to accomplish. And then the second one is I wanted to be inspiring.
I want people to read the newsletter and be like, just like the Jared story from Subway,
like, Whoa, I could totally do is I'm going to do this. Like, when can I do this? When's the next
gift I'm giving? And how can I adapt this story to my own needs? It sort of turns that lightbulb
on for you. Yes, that's what I'm hoping I'm doing for my readers. It certainly has worked for me.
I love that. How do you find your stories? Yeah, so it started off with friends and family,
and I got a pretty sizable library just from that. But then what happened is,
family, so did you do interviews? I did. Yeah, and just at a certain point, like,
I just kind of got obsessed and just started asking everyone and passing like,
Hey, tell me a story of a great gift you've received or given. And most people do have a story,
or they, they at least know of a story, right? So I'm constantly writing those down. And then
what happened is once my subscriber base for the newsletter got big enough,
they started submitting their own stories. So it's become this wonderful community of people who
who are either really good gift givers to begin with, and it's their hobby to do so. So you would
say that their their love language is probably gift giving, or it's it's people like me or you
who aren't the best gift givers by nature, but you know, really know and enjoy the feeling of
having a great gift well in advance and being excited to give it to someone.
Exactly. So your newsletter on Giving Tuesday really caught my eye because giving Tuesday
is obviously a huge celebration in the nonprofit sector. A lot of newsletters are sent. A lot of
people are asking for gifts. A lot of attention is trying to be grabbed on Giving Tuesday. But
your newsletter, first of all, I loved the subject line. It was 10x my gift. How? Which,
you know, the question was immediately piqued my curiosity. But then you shared a story from
Habitat for Humanity about Helen, and I'll post that link in the show notes. And this is the kind
of story that I am constantly trying to encourage my fundraising listeners, my marketing listeners,
to share. So what caught your eye about this particular story and how did it sort of come into
your orbit? And why did you decide to share it? So for that Giving Tuesday edition, I specifically
went out and I knew that I wanted to find a story of someone being impacted by a charitable
organization. It's hard to find, isn't it? It shouldn't be. It shouldn't be. But it is.
It was a challenge. But that one just really spoke to me. And it was just, it was short,
simple, sweet, but really impactful. And, you know, it just talked about how, you know, the cool
thing I like about Habitat for Humanity in particular is a lot of times the work that they do is
supported by a lot of individual donors who aren't, you know, the large institutions donating
tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars towards their cause. It's people like you
and I who may give $50 every year. And hopefully we catch that Giving Tuesday match where, you know,
we can, we can sometimes two or three X or at times 10 X are our donations.
Do you often recommend that kind of gift or is it just around sort of year end holiday
Giving Tuesday time? There's good study that giving someone, how do I always struggle for the
words to say that? So giving someone a gift as a donation to a charitable organization in their name,
there's an addition that I did about that. You know, it's there's there's fine line you need to walk.
If my I guess so a quick rule would be if it's close family or friends, it's probably okay because
you know them well enough. But if it's someone who isn't that close in your orbit, you should
heed the caution. So it's like the human fund with George Costanza. I don't know if you know
that reference. I think I do remember that. What he didn't want to give about Christmas gifts
one year and he just gave everyone a donation to the human fund. Yes. But that's a great point.
So I saw that graphic. It was sort of the red light yellow light green light
when to be really careful giving a gift on behalf of an organization or giving a gift to an
organization on behalf of a person. You have to know them really well and you have to know that
it's going to be meaningful to them. And it shouldn't be about you necessarily what's meaningful to you.
So that gets me into the pillar of everything that you do that I love. You say you talk about it a
lot in your newsletters, but giving involves two sides, right? A giver and a receiver. And this is
so much like fundraising. It's about what makes both sides feel good, feel happy and you know how
we can create a great experience for both sides. So there's definitely lessons for fund raisers
in there. Do you want to talk more about how we can create this great experience?
Sure. And this is my personal philosophy that I'm constantly iterating on, but where I've kind
of arrived if you're talking about the two parties, the giver and the receiver of a gift. How to make
that an incredible experience for both should really start with some foundational goals. And for
the gift giver giving a gift to the gift recipient, the gift recipient is most likely going to be
the happiest if there is to have a gift that has lasting value. And that could be practical value
or emotional value. So practical value, you know, maybe 10 years ago, my wife bought me a nice
Wustoff kitchen knife, still use it, plan to be using it in my 80s, right? That is a great gift.
And it continues to have practical value and should continue to have practical value. Emotional
value might be that one time when you're in college and your buddy showed up at your dorm room with
the pizza, but you still remember it so warmly and fondly. And it's that emotional memory that's
attached to the gift that provides that lasting value. And then for the givers, let's talk about
that. So I did an email edition right before Christmas. And I believe I called it the gift recipient
masterclass because this is a two way street folks. You know, if you are a gift recipient,
there are things that you can do to make sure that that gift giver is getting the most out of the
experience. And that's really just making sure, in my opinion, that they're able to witness the
lasting value that a gift may have on you. So I tell a quick story in a past newsletter about
an ant gifting her niece, a green sweater. Okay, simple green sweater, almost transactional
and face value that story. But then the niece would continue over the years to send photos
every time she was wearing that green sweater and how that made that ant who lived out of town feel
and so much more connected to the niece. So that's an example of just being an incredible
gift recipient. And that's something that I think the listeners in the nonprofit world can take away
from this. There are some people in my life that are amazing gift recipients. I will say that photo
is so important. I know I have two kids, so I really try to instill gratitude into them
by either by writing thank you notes, but also by taking photos, like if people have given them
something or something that they use or telling a story about how they used it or how they really
enjoyed it. I think that is so important. And that just leads me into my next question. I think
you kind of answered it, but how do you know what makes a great gift? I mean, everyone is so different.
Are there some principles that we can follow to really help us decide what makes a great gift
for each occasion? Sure, I'll keep it simple. And then if you have follow up questions, I'm happy
to dive deeper, but it's face value. I think it's just providing that lasting value for the
recipient. So make sure that you're providing that lasting value for the recipient. And that
could be again, practical or emotional value. Yeah, it comes in practical or emotional
flavors. And I love that emotional connection that you have. And that just relates so well back
to the work of the nonprofit sector, because there does have to be that emotional connection,
that resonance that you're giving, you know, the person giving the gift is feeling that emotional
connection, the nonprofit receiving the gift should be an appropriate gift recipient. We should talk
about that. Like, how are you appropriately thanking your donors and the people that are giving you
the gift and making them feel appreciated and making them feel seen and making them feel like
what they did was meaningful. So it is that two way street. How do we become an A plus gift giver?
Like, what do the best gift givers do differently? And I know that I need some help here.
I really like that question. And you're not the first to ask me that. So I usually start off with
saying, listen, like, there are folks in this world whose love language is gift giving,
and they are truly energized by giving gifts. And a lot of them are my subscribers. And
with them being just naturally energized by giving gifts, they're phenomenal gift givers.
But then there's folks like you and I who aren't, you know, that's not our love language. And we
have to look for the proper motivations and shortcuts in order to rise the level of giving A plus gifts,
which I've proven through my own experimentation. And I see through my subscribers, we're applying
back like, I can't wait to do this. Or this went really well and I gave this gift that it works.
So yeah. And then lastly, and there's great research behind this, out of Carnegie Mellon,
there's a researcher named Jeff Gallack. I hope I pronounced his last name correctly.
Just Google Jeff Gallack. And you can read all about it. And he puts out this great content about
all of the common mistakes that gift givers make. And one of them that he stresses on is,
you really should ask someone what they want. And I truly believe from my own observation and my
own life that the best gift givers, regardless of their love language, are usually the folks who
aren't hesitant to just ask, Hey, what do you want to the person they're giving gift for?
And study support that people appreciate gifts that they actually wanted more than
unrequested or surprised gifts. Well, I know, I know that as a parent. And you said that in the
New York Times article, he said that children never hesitate to just tell you exactly what they want.
Totally. That's why my son is so much happier than all the adults in the room on Christmas morning.
Right? Because it's all he told us what he wanted. And we get him what he wanted.
Oh, exactly. I never give a list. And that is just my downfall. How can we get over that?
You know, how can we approach this conversation? I think that what happens a lot of the time
is that these are uncomfortable conversations for people to have, at least in Western culture.
I live in Northern New England. So we're very Puritan and we're very Yankee. And we just don't
ask people what they want. And you just get it and you get what you get. You don't get upset,
that kind of thing. So how can we change this culture? Do you have any ideas? Like,
what kind of questions can we ask? Yeah, I mean, I would love to see over time a change in culture.
And I would say we're probably gravitating towards that with this research coming out in our society,
just moving in the right direction on that front in my opinion. But I will tell a quick
story about what my mother does. Oh, my mom is one of those people, by the way,
not interrupt, that just literally tells you what she wants. She sends you a link.
So this is what I want. Those people are so helpful. They are helpful. But here's what my mom does.
So, you know, I'm one of three brothers and we're all married. We all have kids. So probably some
time in November, my mom sends an individual email to everyone and says, Hey, what are you
and your wife and all of your kids want? And then she collects that list and then she shares it
with the entire family. So I know exactly what to get my niece or nephew. And that side steps,
all of those uncomfortable conversations of, should I really tell my sister-in-law what I want for
Christmas? Or should I just let her come up with something and make her feel good about it?
So my mom's like a huge gift-giving ally. That's a gift-giving ally. This is blowing my mind
from how simple it is. But having these systems and these processes, then you really are going to,
you're not going to be returning as many things. You're going to know the sizes of things. You're
going to know, Oh, people always ask me, I have a teenager. You know, teenage girl. What do you
get a teenager? It's like, well, she does have a list of stuff, but you would probably never know
what it was unless I told you. So I would love to see people being more direct.
Not only about what they want, but also asking people, let's just cut through all of this,
like be asked, let's really find out what you want. But how do you combat, I can already hear
some of the pushback from this, right? How can you combat the thing that says people that say,
well, then where's the thought in that? I really want to be creative in my gift-giving.
Great question. Okay. So this won't work on everyone. This works on me. If someone
points me to research that that proves how my feeling is incorrect. Research is great.
That could change my mind, but that doesn't always change my feelings, right?
So there are ways to give someone a completely mundane, non-surprised gift, but give it in with
some pizzazz, right? Like you hear stories of, oh, here's a story. So if you're going to give a gift
card to someone, stick the gift card balloons. So balloons that you blow up, like helium,
balloons, they are great at storing things that you don't think could actually fit in them.
But I don't know if you've ever seen videos on YouTube, super fun to watch, where people put
gifts and balloons and then just hand someone a pin and say, like, go find your gift, right?
And that creates a memorable experience for sure. You're giving someone a gift card,
ensure that's what they want. And that's probably going to lead to that lasting
happiness or value that we're looking for in a good gift. But it's also allowing you to exercise
kind of that creative side and scratch that urge to say, hey, look, I was thoughtful.
Yeah. Doing something unexpected. I think that really lends itself also to my audience when
they're thinking of how to approach a donor or how to thank a donor, how to acknowledge someone,
doing something a little unexpected and even dressing up something like you just said,
a gift card, it can be made into something interesting. And I was going to actually ask you
how you feel about gift cards as a gift. Yes or no, I love gift cards personally, but completely
support gift cards. And you mentioned that you have a teenage daughter at home. So this wasn't
around when you and I were growing up because we would go to the mall and make purchases. So
cash was a wonderful gift. I remember getting cash and being, oh my god, it's cash. This is
exactly what I wanted. But these days, kids aren't often going to the mall or adolescents
aren't going to the mall or shops. They're doing everything online. But what's something you need
to purchase something online? Well, a credit card and people in that age group don't often
have credit cards. So that's why gift cards make a very practical gift, especially for that
demographic. I love that idea. Know your audience. It's an important tip. So do you have some stories
to share? Maybe you could just share a couple of your favorite stories, either of gift recipients,
gift givers. I love the examples you put in our prep document. I would love to hear all of them,
but maybe just pull out a couple of them. Well, I was going to put it to you. So, you know,
do you want to hear a hallmark type story? Do you want to hear a practical story or do you want to
hear a fun story? And we could do multiples. Let's do fun. Okay, fun. So I have a friend named Nick.
And he told me that over the years, he will go out to dinner with his wife. And he will capture her
like mid bite into her favorite foods. And they're really not flattering photos, right? But he's
a mass collection over the years of her just savoring and enjoying meals that they've had together.
And then he went back and got the recipes from the restaurants or similar recipes online and then
put it into a recipe book. So on, you know, on one side of the page, when you open the book, you have
the picture of her enjoying the meal with the Israeli unflattering, funny photos. Thankfully,
she has a good sense of humor. And on the other side, you have the recipe so they can recreate those
meals at home and also live through those photos. So just a fun story that someone I know did for
as a gift and it just it worked out well. And I've written about how I would go about doing that
if I was going to recreate it for my subscribers. I have a feeling the hallmark stories both might
make me cry. So the practical. What about one of the practical stories? Okay, practical stories.
Well, I already told one of the hallmark stories he didn't cry. It was the green sweater
story. Right. I just think that's awesome how the two of them, the niece and the aunt have that
connection with each other. And it just that's the whole one of the hallmark stories that I
am marked for this conversation. So if you didn't cry, you made it through. The other one might make
you cry. So we'll avoid that one for now. The practical gift. So these are two quick ones. So
I have a friend, his name is Camilo and Camilo and his wife, when they were dating many years ago,
they were thrift shopping, I think, and they found this little ET water glass or mug that
she absolutely loved. And then eventually it broke, you know, 10 years, 15 years later.
And he was smart enough to just go on eBay and find the exact one and surprise her with it.
But the story that or the like the lesson that I'm trying to try to impart on my subscribers
is just find something that was broken or lost or that you can even upgrade in someone's life and
do that. It's a simple shortcut. Well, if you think about now, okay, I might be dating myself,
the movie, the Santa Claus with Tim Allen. Okay. Do you remember the part where he goes to
the teachers? He goes to the school Christmas party and he goes with the principal and everyone's
no one's having fun and everyone's kind of gloomy. And then he magically, because he is Santa,
no one knows it yet, but he magically finds all these gifts. But it's gifts that they never got
when they were younger. So it's all gifts from their childhood, but something they had wanted
that they never got. And that story that you just told me me think of that sort of like,
it doesn't have to be something that, you know, doesn't have to be a knife you're going to use
for 80 years, but it could be just something that's going to make them feel a certain way
and make them smile and make them happy because that emotion is so important as well. So
to end on, I want to end talking about your email newsletter because a lot of my listeners
have their own email newsletters, their own communications, they're desperately trying to like build
community, get people to open, get people to click, get people to respond. So your subject lines are
always really great. Snap this pic before it's too late. I love that one. And she listened. Now I
don't chew my smoothies. You're going to have to tell me that story. We're going to tell my listeners
that story. It's a quick one. It's my own story. So my wife, when we were dating, you know, early
in our relationship, I had this blender that was fairly old and I put kale in my smoothies and
she watched me every morning sit there and chew down my smoothies. That sounds horrifying.
She eventually invested in a Vitamix and it's the same Vitamix that I still use today and I use it
almost every morning and she gets that satisfaction every once in a while. I just see that face when
I'm drinking my smoothies and she goes, so how do you like that Vitamix? You know, and that's a
perfect example of lasting value for me, but also lasting value for her is the gift giver because
she gets to see me enjoy that. We gave my daughter an air fryer this year because we were tired of
yelling at her to stop cooking things in oil and almost burning down the house. So it was a win-win
for everybody. So I love that. So you use animated gifts, emojis. That's truly probably my love
language. It's such a colorful, happy newsletter to open. How do you continue your passion week
after week after week and where do you get your creativity from? Good questions. So the book that
I just finished is called The Go Giver. Have you ever read The Go Giver? No, but I'm putting it on
my list, The Go Giver. So there was a line in The Go Giver that talked about how being someone who
gives way more than they receive is such a satisfying way to live. And that's what I'm finding this
journey for me to be. And I found out when I was working in the nonprofit space as well. So just
being attached to the work and the mission of what I'm trying to do and helping people, and that's
another reason why the distinction of coach is so important to me as opposed to consultant because
I view a coach as someone who should be giving to the world more than they're receiving.
And then how I keep the creativity up, you'll laugh if you look at an email that has come out
recently, but then go back like six months to my earlier emails. They're just a complete snorfest.
Like they're not that well written and they're less animated. So my whole point is creativity is
like a muscle. And I'm pumping these out every week just like you're doing this podcast.
Just with any other muscle, the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. So anyone out there
listening who's like, how do I get more creative? How do I get more funny? Just start and then keep
doing it and keep doing it and you're eventually going to get better. I love that. Thank you for
that advice. So where can people find out about you sign up for this newsletter that I know all my
listeners are going to want to sign up for and learn more about you? Bettergiftcoach.com. Better
giftcoach.com. You can subscribe. Again, it's a free weekly newsletter. It's less than a minute
to read most of the time. And as Julia put it, it should make you smile and giggle a little bit
when you open the email. I do have Instagram as well at my handles at bettergiftcoach.com
or better giftcoach. I don't follow you on Instagram. I should. I love that. So we have to end with
this and you get asked this all the time. And I didn't put it in the questions, but what's the best
gift you've ever either given or received? So it was actually featured maybe three weeks ago. So I
did an edition about planned surprise gifts, which I'm a huge fan of. And there's a book called
Giftology that I also would advise people to read. And the author talks about this thing called
planned randomness. So you just pick random days throughout the year where you commit to giving
someone a gift and they don't know it's coming. It's a phenomenal practice. So this will be local
to you, Julia. So we're living in Cleveland now, which is where I'm from. But we spent three years
from 2017 to 20 in Boston. And my favorite restaurant in the world is here in Cleveland. It's a taco
chain. And my understanding was that it was only in Cleveland. There was maybe four or five of the
locations here in Cleveland. And my wife randomly found one when we were living there that's up in
New Hampshire in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. And she just told me, Hey, we're going out to dinner one
night. And she didn't tell me where I figured it was just the restaurant that she found online. And
it was my favorite restaurant. Oh, so she brought a little Cleveland to you. She did. And you can
watch if you go to the email a couple weeks ago, you can she recorded my reaction. It's a short
10 second clip of me just being dumbfounded and my brain like not being able to function. That was a
good gift. So that's the one I always go back to so you can thank my wife for that one. I love it.
Thank you, Patrick so much for being here. Thanks everyone for listening. So it's better gift coach
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