Stop the Churn: A Practical Donor Retention System for Fundraisers Who Are Tired of Refilling a Leaky Bucket

You already know retention matters. What you don’t have is a system that makes it happen consistently — without heroic effort, without adding headcount, and without it falling apart the moment someone gets busy.

Amy Sexton Stanislavski, CFRE, delivers the Retention Jumpstart Framework: a set of organizational systems and decision rules that embed retention into your workflow, calendar, and culture — so it stops depending on any one person remembering to do the right thing.

The sector has been talking about donor retention for 20 years. Rates haven’t budged. The problem isn’t awareness — it’s execution. 

In this high-energy working session, Amy Sexton Stanislavski, CFRE, cuts through the noise and delivers a practical retention system built for real teams with competing priorities. You’ll leave with a completed scorecard, a 90-day framework, and one written next step.