Oct 4, 2026
It's December 12. The appeal letter still needs a signature, the donation form asks for a mailing address twice, and nobody is sure who thanked last year's donors. Sound familiar?
In this episode of Kari's Confessions, I walk through a realistic, month-by-month annual giving calendar for nonprofit leaders who are ready...
Sep 27, 2026
If your nonprofit doesn’t have a succession plan, you still have a succession plan. It’s called scrambling.
In this episode of Kari's Confessions: A Nonprofit Exec Tells All, Kari Anderson unpacks why nonprofit succession planning gets avoided, and what it actually takes to protect your mission when leadership...
Sep 20, 2026
Your Development Director Just Resigned. Two Weeks Before the Gala.
She knew the donors, the sponsor promises, the auction software, and why Table 12 could never sit next to Table 14. Now everyone is looking at the executive director, and someone finally asks the question that should have come months ago: does...
Sep 13, 2026
A CEO transition is never just a staffing change. It is an organizational stress test.
When the person at the center of your nonprofit leaves, everything gets revealed. Whether your board understands its job. Whether your fundraising lives in a system or in one person's head. Whether anyone besides the departing leader...
Sep 6, 2026
If one key person disappeared tomorrow, would your organization have an inconvenience or a crisis?
Most nonprofit leaders think succession planning means naming the next executive director someday. Someday, when there’s plenty of notice, an engaged board, clean finances, and every password stored somewhere safe....