Strategies for Navigating Some Leadership Struggles

A common struggle for fundraisers at social-services organizations is that the organization has been primarily reliant on grants and wants to incorporate private fundraising, which requires a lot of up-front costs. It also requires the organization see things more from the private donor’s perspective — something the administration might not be accustomed to if it’s been primarily focused on government grants. A lot of social-services organizations want the unrestricted support that comes from privately raised funds but might be resistant to making the internal organizational changes necessary to run that type of program successfully.