Fundraising When You Are the Development Department
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About the event
For many nonprofit professionals, fundraising means wearing multiple hats — writing grants, cultivating donors, managing events, and stewarding relationships, often all at once. This session offers a space to reflect on the realities of fundraising with limited capacity and explore practical strategies for strengthening impact with the resources available.
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Nearly $600 billion moves through American philanthropy every year. Not much of it lands in northern New Mexico. This session is for the fundraiser writing the grant, making the ask, and sending the thank-you note...sometimes on the same afternoon. We'll look at the national giving numbers, trade honest stories about what's working and what's not, surface ideas from leaders who are rethinking what's possible with limited bandwidth, and take home one new idea to do differently going forward. Come ready to think out loud with people who understand the weight of this work and the size of our communities.
This event is part of the Learning Hub program Fundraisers' Forum. The Santa Fe Community Foundation proudly offers the Learning Hub as an educational space for nonprofit board, executive directors, staff members, and donors. Each year, the Hub offers dozens of events, workshops, and learning circles that promote leadership, skill building, and peer-supported growth
Development Directors and Fundraisers: Are you looking for a community where you can truly grow, share ideas, and find solutions with others who understand the unique challenges of fundraising? We invite you to be part of a new monthly gathering designed just for you.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Linley Daly
Linley Daly
Linley Daly is the Founder and CEO of Daly Impact Strategies, where she helps mission-driven leaders and organizations navigate complexity, growth, and transformation with clarity, courage, and conviction. With more than 30 years of experience across the nonprofit, corporate, and public sectors, she is known for helping leaders cut through noise, align strategy with values, and build cultures people actually want to be part of.
A Professional Certified Coach (PCC), strategist, facilitator, and governance expert, Linley works at the intersection of nonprofit soul and for-profit sharpness—blending strategic planning, leadership development, emotional intelligence, and organizational culture. Her work challenges leaders to move beyond burnout, over-functioning, and reactive leadership toward sustainable leadership that builds both capacity and impact.
Linley has helped organizations raise millions, guided executive teams and boards through transformational change, and facilitated high-stakes conversations that reshape how leaders lead, serve, and create influence. Known for her bold presence, grounded wisdom, and no-fluff approach, she brings equal parts strategic insight, humanity, and truth-telling to every engagement.
A native New Mexican and former Division I scholarship athlete, Linley believes leadership is not about carrying everything alone. It is about building people, cultures, and systems strong enough to thrive without leaders becoming the emotional and operational shock absorbers for broken systems.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Meet the people leading the conversation
Linley Daly
Linley Daly
Linley Daly is the Founder and CEO of Daly Impact Strategies, where she helps mission-driven leaders and organizations navigate complexity, growth, and transformation with clarity, courage, and conviction. With more than 30 years of experience across the nonprofit, corporate, and public sectors, she is known for helping leaders cut through noise, align strategy with values, and build cultures people actually want to be part of.
A Professional Certified Coach (PCC), strategist, facilitator, and governance expert, Linley works at the intersection of nonprofit soul and for-profit sharpness—blending strategic planning, leadership development, emotional intelligence, and organizational culture. Her work challenges leaders to move beyond burnout, over-functioning, and reactive leadership toward sustainable leadership that builds both capacity and impact.
Linley has helped organizations raise millions, guided executive teams and boards through transformational change, and facilitated high-stakes conversations that reshape how leaders lead, serve, and create influence. Known for her bold presence, grounded wisdom, and no-fluff approach, she brings equal parts strategic insight, humanity, and truth-telling to every engagement.
A native New Mexican and former Division I scholarship athlete, Linley believes leadership is not about carrying everything alone. It is about building people, cultures, and systems strong enough to thrive without leaders becoming the emotional and operational shock absorbers for broken systems.
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