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You’ve finished your meal at a restaurant and you’re ready for the check. But your server is nowhere to be found.

You glance toward the kitchen and see them flipping burgers on the grill. A moment later they rush past carrying a stack of dishes. Then they stop at the door to seat a new table before disappearing again.

Meanwhile, you’re still sitting there with an empty glass and no check.

At some point, most of us would recognize the problem isn’t bad service. The problem is that one person is trying to run the entire restaurant.

Yet this is exactly how many nonprofits structure fundraising.

Every nonprofit organization builds its success on well-defined strategies. But what happens when those strategies, once so promising, start to show cracks? Knowing when to adjust the strategies in your strategic plan and when to give your strategy time to play out can be a critical turning point for the leadership of your organization. How can you tell if something is amiss?