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How to digitize a decade of gift agreements in a weekend

The reason the boxes are still boxes is that digitizing them sounds like a year-long initiative: a committee, a vendor, a data-entry team, a spreadsheet nobody wants to own. So it gets deferred, again

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When your gift officer retires, where does the memory go?

The average major gift officer stays in a role for a few years. The relationships they steward often span decades. That gap is where institutional memory goes to disappear. When an officer leaves, wh