DEVELOPMENT & FINANCE: A BROKEN MARRIAGE?
Development and Finance: A Broken Marriage? by pam ashlund This article is the start of a conversation on classic rifts that exist in nonprofit organizations. Today I'm blogging about the odd way that conflicts in Blackbaud's software products mirror departmental and emotional conflicts. Development and Finance - One department brings in the money ("develops" the funds) and the other counts the money. You'd think that would be a marriage made in heaven...but for some reason...not so much. This was evident, on two levels, at Blackbaud's 2006 Conference for Nonprofits. First, and most fundamental, at the software level: I attended the session on integrating two software products ( Blackbaud's fundraising product the "Raisers Edge" and its accounting product "Financial Edge"). You'd have to figure that two products from the same company would already be integrated (and certainly not require a class), anymore than one would think you...