Without a structured process to execute your strategies, they simply withered away. This is because good ideas don’t fail because they aren’t good ideas.

At the top of my list is the one-night-stand approach to solicitations that is pervasive in the fundraising world. The one night stand of fundraising is when you solicit a donor with no further engagement until you again ask them for money one year later. Why do I give it this risqué description?

Rabbi Nachum Muschel was Founder and Head of School for Adolph Schreiber Hebrew Academy of Rockland (ASHAR) in Monsey, NY for more than 35 years. My children were in the school for the better part of the last decade, and while he retired many years before we came to the school.