Most nonprofits don't have a fundraising problem. They have a system problem. Fundraising, Reconstructed is for the development leaders and EDs who are done explaining why the numbers keep missing.
Recovering Fundraiser. Strategist. Creator, Fundraising Operating System (fOS). I examine the organizational architecture behind nonprofit fundraising, and the patterns that shape the humans running it.
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