The year-end fundraising season is already an all-hands-on-deck effort, stretched from the preparations for Giving Tuesday through the final appeals in December. Now, imagine facing it with an empty desk. An unexpected vacancy in a key role, like a development coordinator or database manager, can quickly escalate from an inconvenience to a crisis. The consequences ripple outward immediately, compounding the existing holiday pressure. Gift processing grinds to a halt, creating

Giving Tuesday is a powerful fundraising moment, a global day of generosity that can bring a significant influx of support for your mission. But with that success comes a critical operational test: can your team process every gift, update every record, and acknowledge every donor accurately and on time? For many nonprofits, this sudden volume creates a significant challenge. The result is a post-campaign "hangover" that can last for weeks. While your organization should be ri

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Development Outsourcing has been bringing value to fundraising for decades. Today, development departments can outsource grant writing,...

For many leaders, their first concern about outsourcing database management is the gift processing workflow - particularly checks. The...

Nobody likes doing cold outreach. Whether you are 1) reaching out to people in your database who have never given, 2) reaching out to...

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You have donors you are getting ready to solicit. You have an idea of what to ask for and information about their wealth. But do you know...