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Moves and the development scorecard

Move prospects through the pipeline and read the team's leading and lagging activity.

Major gifts are won through a sequence of intentional moves: qualify a prospect, cultivate the relationship, make the ask, steward the gift. Relae tracks where every prospect sits and what the next move is.

Capture a contact report

After a meaningful contact, write what happened in plain words and confirm it as a contact report. What happened becomes the relationship history. What is next becomes a planned move on the timeline, so history and what is ahead never get tangled. A contact can move a prospect to the next stage.

The scorecard

The development scorecard reads activity against benchmarked targets and weights it into a score out of 100, balancing leading activity (qualifications, substantive contacts, asks delivered) against lagging outcome (asks funded, gift production). It grounds in moves-management practice. A manager sees the whole team; an officer sees their own line. Every metric carries what it measures and why.

The score is a fair read of the book, not a vanity number. Activity is capped so a pile of easy touches cannot inflate it, and a new portfolio is not punished by a dollar-only goal.