Adding on to what Steve said-see if you can get the cost of a 40-hour consultant. Some orgs don't realize that a really good consultant or contractor can run you anywhere from $30-59/hr depending on where...

Just saw your comment-thank you!

I've worked in various areas of nonprofit and charity over the past 20 years but I have to say my current org is my favorite. Not only are the people amazing, but we are working towards team solutions...

Agreed. I've worked with RE for about 20+ years, so I've got a good handle on how to code then moving forward and have already updated our SOUs to reflect that, in addition to training staff to look at...

I appreciate you reaching out to colleagues. I've redefined our SOUs for gift processing to cover this, and cc donors are (still processed manually) so they're easily captured. I am now trying to figure...

Love this! I love my org but I love so many others too that I hope I'm not too late to nominate one

I'm finishing my first 60 days at my new org, and one of the things that has come to my attention in looking at gift reports as they come in is that we have a lot of recurring sustaining donors who pay...

I've recently implemented a new donor workflow that sends an email every other month. The first thanks them for their gift (and identifies recurring or one-time). It also tells them what kind of information...