One endowed fund is easy to steward. You know the donor, you know the purpose, you send the report. Forty endowed funds is a different problem entirely. Each one has its own purpose, its own spending
Read MoreEvery advancement services team knows the ritual. Once a year, often in summer, the donor file audit begins. Someone pulls a sample of gift files, or tries to review all of them, and checks each one a
Read MoreThere is a version of the pledge reminder that donors dread and gift officers hate making. It arrives cold and lands like an invoice from a stranger. It treats a gift, one of the most generous things
Read MoreA gift officer gives notice on a Friday. They manage a hundred and fifty relationships, some of them decades deep, a few of them mid-conversation about seven-figure commitments. In two weeks they are
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