Your nonprofit’s development team acquires funding to keep your organization going. Unfortunately, each individual fundraiser on your team is only able to speak with a certain number of donors, manage a certain number of grant applications, and plan a certain number of events. There are only so many hours in a day, and the last thing you want is for your nonprofit’s staffers to feel overstretched and underappreciated.

This team brings in much-needed donations from a variety of sources. While it may seem counterintuitive, assessing your technology and making an initial investment may be the key to this team’s success.

The nonprofit sector has a pervasive fear of spending money— a fear that leads organizations to be irrationally frugal. If an organization wants to continue growing its fundraising capabilities— and with that, its impact in the community— it’ll need to spend money on increasing the capacity of its development team.