Breaking Out of Organizational Silos
In our last blog post, I talked about how the culture of an organization, through its systems and structure, can breed organizational silos. These rifts create mistrust and territorial behaviors between departments. When the organization loses sight of the donor, it...
Your Non-Profit Organization’s Structure Is Harming Your Mission Impact
Fractured non-profit organizational structure leads to unclear divisions of labor, which in turn contributes to the creation of inefficient processes and systems. And this inefficiency results in real harm to the economy of the organization. Jeff and I have seen this...
How to Manage a Great MGO
Managing a development team is a tough job. Even tougher is managing major gift officers. Richard and I know this firsthand, because both of us have had to do it working for non-profits in our careers. We also know it because non-profits hire us to help them manage...
You Must Have Admin Support
The value of a MGO is what that person does with a qualified major donor in fulfilling that donor’s passions and interests. It is not sitting in meetings in the office, or plowing through piles of paperwork and spreadsheets. But that is exactly what most MGOs are...TOP RATED PODCAST
Twice monthly, Richard and Jeff address current topics and classic problems in major gift fundraising.
