Kyle Conner

20 Jul 2026

Watch the Movement, Not the Money

The first capital campaign I ever ran taught me to distrust the number everyone else was happy about. We were a few months in. I brought the report to a campaign committee meeting, and the total was up. A strong month, the kind that makes a board chair nod and

10 Jul 2026

I Learned This in a Theatre Class, Not a CFRE Program

Nobody taught me how to make an ask in my CFRE prep course. They taught me the principle of it. The language around it. The theory. But the actual mechanics—the thing that makes a donor say yes instead of "let me think about "it"—I learned