Fundraising strategy: what do leaders need to do? Blog 5 – final thoughts

This blog series is based on a session I presented at Fundraising Everywhere’s Charity Leadership Festival alongside Desiree D’Souza, Executive Director of Social Innovation at See Ability. In that session, available in full from Fundraising Everywhere here – and so also in this blog series, we look at what fundraising leaders and the leadership team across charities need to do to develop and implement their organisation’s fundraising strategy successfully. We consider key issues such as how to get buy in, mitigating risk, and the importance of storytelling. We also consider the importance of focusing on team wellbeing, how to focus on the bigger fundraising picture and think about the time when you will pass the fundraising baton on to your successors. The first blog, on first principles for fundraising strategy leadership is here. The second blog, on leadership in uncertain times, is here. The third blog, on the importance of storytelling, is here. The fourth blog, on what we leave behind, is here. We’re moving on now to the final thoughts section of this blog series. Desiree, as leaders, how do we maintain our focus on wellbeing, do you think? I know that you and I could speak for a long time about this, Richard but I think for me, I'll just stick to the one point, because there is no getting away from it. We are as fundraising leaders operating in incredibly challenging and uncertain times. And this role that we