Let me say the quiet part out loud:
Most nonprofit staffers are not underperforming.
They’re just stuck doing the same five things over and over because nobody’s had time to make a better system.
So they duct-tape a workaround. Then another. Then Carol from development creates a color-coded spreadsheet that everyone is terrified to touch.
(It’s me, I’m Carol.)
And we still can’t find last year’s donor thank-you letter template.
I recently worked with a client (let’s call them Shul-on-the-Hill) who was sending out every email manually, rewriting the same text every time, checking six calendars to confirm one event, and fielding weekly “Can you send me that again?” messages from their staff.
In three hours, we:
- Created a shared folder with branded templates
- Set up a content calendar that worked with their brain, not against it
- Automated their weekly emails so they could actually unplug on Fridays
The result?
They saved 5 hours a week.
No one cried during staff meetings.
Their ED said it “felt like we hired a ghost employee who’s good at her job.” (Boo! 👻)
Here’s the truth:
You don’t need more hands. You just need to build a support system.
My on-demand course, Streamline Your Communications, will walk you through how to build intuitive, easy, and time-saving systems that fit your workflow, not someone else’s ideal.
If your team is still copy/pasting last year’s details into emails that get held up by approvals, it’s time. Grab the course now and reclaim your sanity.