Development Systems International Archives

October 3, 2019

Maxie Carpenter Development Systems International

Maxie Carpenter Has a New Take On Nonprofits

Maxie Carpenter and Development Systems International have a new take on nonprofit leadership. Maxie asks the question, NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP: EFFECTIVE OR EFFICIENT?” Effectiveness has always been a driver of Leadership and nonprofit success, particularly since Peter Drucker formulated the rules and required habits of thought in 1967’s The Effective Executive. This book had an enormous impact on all kinds of leaders in all kinds of sectors, not just the for-profit marketplace because Drucker identified that doing the […]

February 20, 2022

Stefanie Stark, Major Gifts Ramp-Up Counselor

Stefanie Stark, Major Gifts Fundraising Expert, is a founding member of the National Association of Nonprofit Organizations & Executives and is a Certified Nonprofit Consultant. She has spent over 20 years serving in the charitable sector. Stefanie studied in Budapest at the National Hungarian Ballet Academy and is a graduate of the University North Carolina School of the Arts and the University of Utah. She began her career in the performing arts in 1998 as […]

January 28, 2024

John Keuffer – Meet a Major Gifts Ramp-Up Expert

John Keuffer – Meet a Major Gifts Ramp-Up Expert is a timely article about the power of raising large gifts written by a veteran nonprofit CEO. Here’s what John Keuffer believes about major donors and nonprofit capacity-building. Some think that because someone has a high net worth, they are morally obligated to give to their nonprofit because their nonprofit has a tremendously high need and it’s the moral obligation of the rich to give because […]

September 4, 2024

Tom Reed is a Major Gifts Ramp-Up Expert

Tom Reed, veteran CEO and fundraising expert is a Major Gifts Ramp-Up Counselor with Development Systems International. Let’s hear what Tom has to share: About 7 years ago I read a book called Reimagining Philanthropy by Jimmy LaRose. It was a fascinating challenge to everything I had become accustomed to in the nonprofit sector, having been the Executive Director of a premier charity in Santa Barbara, CA for over 20 years. In the back of […]