by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | May 5, 2023 | Budget, Budgeting, Budgets, Communications, Fundraising, Marketing, Non-Profit Leadership, Organization Structure, organizational structure | Budget, Budgets, Finance, Strategic Plans, Structure
It’s budget time. And the debates begin. How much budget to allocate for fundraising? How much for communications? How much for marketing? And those debates migrate to who owns each of the functions. One non-profit leader believes that it all belongs together, and...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Jun 13, 2022 | Donor Pipeline, Management, Nonprofit management, organizational structure | Management, Pipeline Development, Structure, Structure
It’s always amazing to Jeff and me how the donor pipeline, as a strategic element of fundraising, is either ignored or mismanaged in most non-profits. The reason we know this is that we cannot see the pipeline in the organization structure of the non-profit. Here’s...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | May 16, 2022 | Donor Pipeline, Organization Structure, organizational structure | Management, Pipeline Development, Structure
I think it’s crazy how often non-profit leaders create an organizational structure that’s counterproductive to their organization’s purpose and productivity. This happens when an authority figure designs a structure based on personal opinion, personal desires, and...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Jan 31, 2020 | Development Directors, organizational structure | Development Directors, Management, Structure
Development Directors are the unsung heroes of a non-profit. Over the years of working on major gifts (and by that, I mean midlevel, major, and planned giving), Richard and I have developed the conviction that a great development director is what makes or breaks a...