Finally, Room To Breathe

Good Soup is your dedicated fundraising operations sous chef—keeping your data trustworthy, your follow-up consistent, and your team focused on what matters most: your supporters.

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You know something isn’t working. Maybe your data feels unreliable, your reports don’t match your accounting, or your team is spending more time wrestling with your CRM than actually using it. You need an expert to look under the hood and tell you what’s really going on—without the pressure to commit to a long-term engagement.
What you’ll get:
• Complete CRM and data health assessment
• Personalized video walkthrough of findings
• Prioritized action plan with sequenced next steps
• Two weeks of implementation support
Investment: $2,750
Your team fundraises. We handle the ops.
Your fundraising team is strong on relationships but stretched thin on operations. Gift entry is handled, but follow-up falls through the cracks. Pipeline reports feel unreliable. Reconciliation gets pushed to the bottom of the list until finance starts asking questions. You need steady, reliable operations support that shows up every week and keeps your systems actually useful.
What’s included:
- Weekly email check-ins with data updates and flagged action items
- Monthly financial reconciliation
- Monthly pipeline health audit
- Monthly acknowledgment tracking
- Monthly priority report with top 5–7 opportunities and next steps
- 60-minute monthly strategy session
- Ongoing data hygiene and duplicate management
- Pipeline and task management tracking
- Email and Slack support
- Light system improvements as opportunities arise
Investment: $3,500/month · 6-month minimum commitment
Your fundraising operations, fully managed.
You’re beyond needing someone to maintain things—you need a strategic operations partner who’s embedded in your systems and thinking ahead. Your organization is growing, your data needs are more complex, and you want someone who can own the operational side of fundraising so your leadership team can focus on strategy, campaigns, and major gifts.
Everything in Core, plus:
• Biweekly strategy sessions instead of monthly
• Advanced reporting and custom dashboards
• Multi-platform management (CRM + integrated tools)
• Board and leadership reporting support
• Quarterly strategic reviews
• Proactive system improvements and workflow builds
• Priority response times
Investment: $5,500/month · 6-month minimum commitment

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What People Are Saying

Before working with Dena, I was intimidated by complex CRM systems. She made Salesforce easy to navigate, teaching me how to pull reports, streamline donor touchpoints, and manage grants effectively. Her leadership prioritizes people and empowers colleagues. Thanks to her guidance, I now feel empowered and more confident as a data-driven fundraiser."

Patricia (Pat) Dalao
Institutional Giving Manager
Her curiosity and interest in learning how to improve our organization were invaluable. She instituted new procedures, software, and standards, guiding the organization toward respecting the importance of information: its gathering, its safety, its timeliness, its organization."

Kristina Afzal
IT Manager
Dena has an exceptional ability to quickly pick up information about our organization. She brought clarity and structure to our fundraising operations, training our staff and improving our workflow to build stronger systems that will serve us well beyond a single campaign. Thanks to her support, our campaign was not only more organized but also more successful, and we feel more confident moving forward.

Bobbi Fabian
Executive Director

About Good Soup

I'm Dena, and I started Good Soup because I've been the fundraiser drowning in data cleanup instead of talking to donors. I've been the Development Director who couldn't answer "what's in the pipeline?" at board meetings because I didn't have the capacity to update all my records at once. That's when I learned to build systems that work with your capacity, not against it.

I know what overwhelmed feels like. I also know what's possible when your operations actually work for you.

Good Soup provides fundraising operations support for nonprofit teams who are ready to stop fighting their systems. Your work is already hard enough. You deserve tools and support designed with kindness and care.

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