Development Office Creation*

From: Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood - an early childhood mental health, early childhood education, and professional education center.

Purpose: Create development office to support five-year strategic plan, replace reduced founder funding and allow for growth of services.

How:

  1. Hire mid-career development director and administrative assistant.
  2. Increase support for annual campaign.
  3. Increase annual campaign revenue gifts, and other sources of benevolent support.

Outcomes:

  1. Adopt new organization leadership structure.
  2. Replace phased out support from founding benefactor.
  3. Increase annual campaign revenues and major gifts.
  4. Realize new net revenue stream of $100,000.
  5. Increase capacity to serve children regardless of ability to pay.

Cost/Term: $373,402 over three years. January 2007-December 2009