Stretch Goals & Other Works of Fiction
D.M. Paule2025-06-09T17:49:47-04:00Years ago, when I started consulting with nonprofits, a brand new CEO sought me out. His role had been empty while the board conducted an [...]
5 Summer Tasks That’ll Set Your Development Office Up for Fall Success!
Ailena Parramore2025-06-09T17:50:43-04:00It’s finally here…Summer! With the spring activity calendar slowing down and the number of external interruptions diminished with staff vacations (which they are hopefully taking!), [...]
Springing Forward & Looking Back
Ailena Parramore2025-06-09T17:50:59-04:00Our Fundraising Search has had a phenomenal first quarter in 2023. Spring in the air and exciting planning is taking place for the remainder of [...]
Black Philanthropy and the Valuable Role of AADO
D.M. Paule2025-06-09T17:51:25-04:00Linda & Dave recently had the honor of teaching at the Southeastern Museums Conference’s Jekyll Island Management Institute (JIMI). The nineteen cohort participants, drawn from [...]
New Year, New Who? Exciting Growth for OFS in 2023
Linda McNay2023-01-30T09:28:56-05:00When I was younger, every January the newsstands – remember those? – would be covered with magazines – remember those? – filled with ideas of [...]
Board Development is Mission Critical
Susan Bacon2025-06-09T18:00:25-04:00There is a quiet struggle going on in the world of nonprofits that tends to strike a chord with every organization – Board Development. Your [...]
Is it Time to Give Your Development Officer a Raise?
Linda McNay2025-06-09T18:11:52-04:00Do you have a great development officer? Has she been at your nonprofit longer than 14 months-the average tenure of a development officer? Is he [...]