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Staffing

🟢 Adequately filled with future growth plans

Highly developed: Fundraising operational structure is adequate to meet present and immediate future needs.

Reflection:

Action:

Notes for Development:

  1. Fundraising operational structure is adequate to meet present and immediate future needs.

  2. Further development shall depend on next cycle of strategic planning, reinforcements/refinement etc.

  3. You have advanced fundraising team structure to meet different types of fundraising function and roles and responsibilities are clearly defined for each position. For deeper impact and outcome oriented fundraising results, you may consider refining the roles further to enhance the scope of the positions.

🟡 FR work done (shared efficiently) by other staffs/Board members

Developing: Fundraising operations require development, but may not be an urgent need (based on effectiveness of present system and future feasibility)

Reflection:

Action:

Notes for Development:

  1. Fundraising operations require development, but may not be an urgent need (based on effectiveness of present system and future feasibility)

  2. Many charities manage fundraising in this manner- particularly the ones that are overwhelmingly dependent on institutional (grant) fundraising. The general pattern in such cases are that the charities are effective (cost effective and program delivery is mostly assured) but fundraising portfolios are mostly unidimensional, and fundraising for organisation development generally becomes difficult.

  3. While your fundraising operation might be adequate to meet your programmatic expenses and a core cost now, it might be prudent to develop a more advanced fundraising portfolio by bringing in multifarious fundraising skill in the organisation.

🟠 Some positions are filled

Under Developed: Team structural issues exist and are required to be addressed for improvement in situation.

Reflection:

Action:

Notes for Development:

  1. Team structural issues exist and are required to be addressed for improvement in situation.

  2. It may be useful to develop a fundraising strategy before working on an improved team structure.

  3. Awareness and need on additional staffing exist; you may be required to formulate a work plan or strategy to fill the current gaps.

🔴 Inadequate

Poorly developed: Required to build an exclusive team of professional.

Reflection:

Action:

Notes for Development:

  1. Required to build an exclusive team of professional.

  2. Not having a proper developed fundraising operation can be very risky as the charities are increasingly becoming vulnerable to various macro-economic volatilities.

  3. Consider conducting a basic need assessment and on war footing fill the major gaps to begin with. Creating a team might take both time and money; consider starting with role diversification of existing staffs; allocate exclsusive fundraising task time.