#nonprofit development

Recently, I have received several questions from nonprofits and from board members, regarding the duties of a board member. There are some responsibilities that should not be taken lightly. Here is an overview that covers the basics.

Strategic Planning is a complex and time consuming process, but one that is crucial to growing your organization. It is so important to start the process early and that means in the first quarter of the fiscal year.

Strategic planning is essential for nonprofits striving to make a lasting impact. It’s the process that helps organizations define their direction, align resources, and ensure that all efforts contribute meaningfully to their mission. However, strategic planning can be complex, and navigating it effectively often requires more than just a good understanding of your organization.   The Role of…

Sam, I just adore Polk's nose freckles. If you can (without causing her upset), would you please boop the snoot for me? If that is too great an injustice, please just give her a scritch from me.

She loves to cheek-mark, so it is very easy to boop the snoot! I booped it twice just to be sure. 

It’s so funny to watch the freckles grow -- I think eventually they’ll take over her nose, but she didn’t have any when she was a baby, and I have like, photo documentation of them as they slowly spread. 

bubblelounge on this post: 

Ok I’ve seen some weird shit on tumblr in my days, but never did I think I’d see a post about my profession (mf’ing development) and fandom.

(And Nate would drive major gifts crazy…all that capacity, apparently inclination and no big dollars 😂 disqualified!!)

If they did peg Nate’s capacity accurately, he’d be like that one guy every new gift officer wants in their portfolio, sure that THIS TIME they can crack him. Prospect Resarch just rolls its eyes, updates the bio for the ten millionth time (it WAS very exciting when they found out he was in prison!) and leaves them to their folly.

aeternalegacy on this post:

Ooooh, I love this!

My headcanon for Eliot in particular is yes, he’s definitely anonymous but I say he has set up trust funds for the kids of fallen army buddies. If he hears through the grapevine that one of his army buddies has fallen on hard times, mysterious cashiers check appears, when they need it most.

In theory he could probably just set up a nonprofit specifically designed to help out his old army buddies and their kids. It’s a legit thing for a 501c3 to simply make cash gifts to those in need. Their database is made up solely of names he’s given them of people they should keep an eye on and help out if needed.  He could call it A Very Distinctive Foundation.

freakierthanthou on this post:

Okay, but as someone who is in the middle of the gift processing from the giving day, consider: Hardison uses increasingly confusing fake names, sometimes names of real people, just to be a butt. (This past week I easily caught “Derek Awesomeballs”, “Spots Monarch” almost got me, “Semen [redacted]” was, unfortunately, actually a real person.) Hardison has a bit of a competition going with the gift processor at a certain children’s cancer charity who keeps tying his gifts back to the alias he first gave under. (If she ever goes into prospect research, he may just have to recruit her.)

One time someone caught Parker dropping off her bag of cash and managed to get her into the system as Alice. This led to some poor gift officer having the most baffling donor meeting of their life.

HAHAHA I love the idea that the gift processor handling Hardison’s gifts has like, a whiteboard in their cube with all the fake names he’s used. 

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