Culture eats strategy for breakfast
Cynthia Gibson, 2016
Generally, a culture of philanthropy is one in which everyone – board, staff and executive director – has a part to play in raising resources for the organization. It’s about relationships, not just money. It’s as much about keeping donors as acquiring new ones and seeing them as having more than just money to bring to the table. And it’s a culture in which fund development is a valued and mission aligned component of everything the organization does.
In the 2013 report, UnderDeveloped, authors Jeanne Bell and Marla Cornelius of CompassPoint wrote that building a culture of philanthropy can help break what they referred to as the “vicious cycle” in nonprofit ...
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