Development Operations

Start of the Fiscal Year: Making Agreements and a Plan

Start the fiscal year strong with fundraising fiscal year planning: reset key definitions, build measurable work plans, and create a strategy your whole team can follow.

Why Continuous Learning Is No Longer Optional in Fundraising

The Harvard Business Review published the book, *Reskilling and Upskilling,* and while I was listening to its core themes on Deepstash, I realized that our market has the same turmoil. We are both laying off staff and desperately trying to hire. I see announcements both… Read More »Why Continuous Learning Is No Longer Optional in Fundraising

Five Steps for Overwhelmed Fundraisers to Make Each Day Easier

Marianne Pelletier shares her five favorite time management techniques to help overwhelmed fundraisers streamline their day, boost productivity, and focus on raising more funds with less stress.

Training Your Staff Is Not Just a Perk

When Budget Cuts Feel Necessary When we get into an economic crunch, we tend to cut perks from our budgets. Doing so feels perfectly fair and sane – I often reflect on my library technician days where the acquisition librarian was trying to figure out… Read More »Training Your Staff Is Not Just a Perk

Let the Machine Do the Work

In our recent Water Cooler Chat, Wilfred Bailey, our associate for data management, showed us many repetitive data task that can be handled through Power Automate. As a follow up, this blog post shares ideas for finding automation in your work so that your brain… Read More »Let the Machine Do the Work