What I’d Do With 10 Extra Hours a Month

Picture this: it’s 10:00 a.m. on a Tuesday. You’ve already sent a beautifully segmented email, posted a donor thank-you on social, and reviewed grant deadlines for the next quarter—all before your second cup of coffee.

No panic. No reinventing the wheel. No muttering under your breath about database gremlins.

Just… breathing room.

Now let’s rewind to reality: most nonprofit teams I work with are underwater. Not because they’re bad at their jobs—but because there’s no system. No structure. No map. Just a long to-do list, two people to do it, and no time to figure out what’s actually working.

And when you don’t know where to start? Everything feels hard.

Where the time goes

Fundraising isn’t natural for most people. And building donor relationships? That’s basically advanced human interaction.

Add in internal dynamics (hi, approval bottlenecks), outdated tech, and the “oh just throw something together” mentality—and boom. You’ve burned three hours and feel like you haven’t moved the needle.

If I could hand every nonprofit team 10 extra hours a month, I wouldn’t tell them to hustle harder. I’d help them build better structure.

So what actually helps?

🛠️ Automations. Stop manually doing what a tool can handle. (Looking at you, gift acknowledgments.) 📬 Templates. Don’t rewrite the wheel. Write it once—use it often. 📆 Calendars. Real ones. Shared ones. Not trapped in someone’s inbox or sticky-noted to a monitor.

These are the unsexy systems that make magic happen.

And I don’t care if it’s in Airtable or Excel or a notebook with really good margins—as long as it’s something your whole team can access and trust.

Because let’s be honest: if your calendar disappears every time someone leaves, it’s not a system. It’s a person-shaped emergency.

Imagine the shift

With 10 extra hours a month, you could finally:

• Draft that donor welcome series

• Build a real campaign calendar

• Test a new acquisition strategy

• Or just—stay on top of the things that shouldn’t feel last-minute
  

You could even, I don’t know, take a real lunch break. (Imagine.)

Let’s build systems that give you your time back.

Because fundraising should feel focused—not frantic.

Book a free discovery call and let’s make it happen.