Development
Fundraising professionals, advancement leaders, and executives responsible for resource development, donor relationships, and long-term financial sustainability.
Development is changing, and many organizations feel it—donor expectations, internal silos, and tools that promise more than they deliver. The Development track helps fundraising leaders and executives break through limiting models, build healthier collaboration between missionaries and organizational development, and strengthen long-term sustainability through planned giving and smarter relationship strategies.
Track leaders are volunteers who lead alongside their own work.
You stop starting from scratch
Protocols, policies, and frameworks other organizations already built and are willing to share.
You get peers who do your job
The people in the room hold the same brief you do, at organizations facing the same questions.
You see the field-wide picture
Association research shows what is happening across 240+ organizations, not just inside yours.
Discover research, conversations, and practical tools connected to this track, including both public and member-exclusive resources.
2026 Missions Compensation Report — Volume 9
Compensation, benefits and senior leadership benchmarking across member organizations — built to help boards and…
ArticleDonor fatigue is real. Here's what works.
Building relationships that sustain long-term giving.
PodcastHelping Your Team Stay Fully Funded
How can leaders help their team members stay fully funded without treating partner development as a necessary evil?
Where this track meets
Track sessions at the annual conference, regional gatherings through the year, and working intensives when the group asks for one.
Risk, Revenue, and Renaming: How a 22-year Global Ministry Rebranded without Losing Supporters
A Peer 2 Peer Webinar for Communications and Marketing Professionals Most of us know a rebrand is bigger than a new logo — but few of us get to watch…
NextGen Leaders Cohort
Are you stepping into your first leadership role? Is there an emerging leader in your organization in which you want to invest? The NextGen Leader…
ECFA State of Giving
Each year ECFA analyzes giving information and financial outlook information for all ECFA Members. This webinar will narrow in and look closer into…