What the sessions teach, what the research confirms, and where the work is going. Each entry is a record from inside the project — honest about what we found and what we still don’t know.
A backyard jay buries acorns to survive one winter and, without meaning to, plants the forest that outlives her.
Read the field note →The napkin asked what’s being planted now. This is the answer: a major gifts program that begins at the first gift.
Read the field note →A record fundraising year is a harvest planted a decade ago. The question the napkin asks is what’s being planted now.
Read the field note →Marcus fixed the late card. He never fixed the system that produced it. A field note on single-loop learning, told through the salmon run.
Read the field note →Every experienced fundraiser can name a failed receipt in sixty seconds. Ask them to trace it to its cause, and the room goes quiet.
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