Nonprofit Leaders: What do you do when your program officer or funder leaves their organization?
So, you’ve spent several years developing this relationship.
This person has become your champion.
You have been able to go to them in good times and difficult times.
They have elevated your work.
And you genuinely feel like they are a friend and colleague.
Now what?
This is a critical window.
📌Ask your contact to continue to champion your work both internally and externally.
📌Have them lay the groundwork in their organization for your next contact.
📌Communicate and celebrate with the funder before your program officer departs, all of the impacts you have had as a result of their funding and your contact's support.
📌 If you have not been doing this all along, now is the time to broaden your relationships in their organization.
📌Consider another role for your contact, like an advisory board member.
📌Perhaps your contact lands in another organization that could be a supporter of your work.
📌But, most importantly, continue your relationship long after they leave, because we are enriched by the talented, committed people in our lives.
❓Now You: What is one thing you would do when your funder or client is leaving?
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