F. Duke Haddad

For development professionals, stewardship should be as natural as breathing. In the last two weeks alone, I participated in several stewardship activities. Story one. A president of a company with his employees agreed to shop and pay for Christmas gifts for children called angels through a program I directed. One day, over 30 of his employees shopped for at least 250 children. The company paid more than $100 in presents for each child.

The five greatest challenges in nonprofit management are money and financial concerns, including donor acquisition and retention; membership recruitment and retention; staffing and volunteers; technology concerns; and decision-making, according to the enSYNC Corporation. Based upon its first concern, you cannot generate a consistent flow of dollars without an experienced and dynamic resource development staff.

From my earliest days as an undergraduate student, I dreamed of obtaining my bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees. This love of learning goes back to days of my youth when I played school with neighbors. I enjoyed that experience and stimulation of knowledge. As my career developed in the nonprofit sector, I continued my educational desire, not only for the sake of learning, but in preparation for better nonprofit sector jobs.