These Nonprofit Fundraising Activities Distract Your Development Department From Their Real Work
It’s 2026. But we still need to preach that 5Ks, golf, events, casino nights, games, and prizes are simply distracting everyone from the real work of a fundraising department.
Full stop.
The administrative load of these activities is killing development departments.
Meanwhile, there’s much work to be done to scale our organizations who are addressing such important issues.
The signs of this focus mis-alignment?
📌Not enough gen-ops revenue
📌Too few large, gifts
📌Shallow relationships
📌Donor retention issues
📌Lack of dollars for infrastructure and equipping staff
Fundraising in the nonprofit sector is not going to get easier.
The thing you can do?
Equip your team how to REALLY raise the dollars your mission needs…which will not happen if they’re focused on this list of administrative tasks disguised as fundraising.
If you know your team needs help making this shift, you can apply here to work with me.
Whenever you’re ready, here are THREE things you can do next:
👣 Follow me on LinkedIn where I share insider info daily — the same lessons I teach my clients about attracting larger gen-ops dollars and diversifying revenue.
🍎 Grab FREE Guides + White Papers — download robust resources you can use to push against the sector’s misconceptions, equip your board, and shift your team into High-ROI fundraising.
📈 Work with me to diversify revenue & secure the gen-ops gifts you need to grow. If you’re a business-minded nonprofit CEO with big growth plans but need to make charitable revenue from investment-level donors a bigger part of your budget, you can apply to work with me here.
