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The first version of Show Me the Receipts was built for a room that could discover the gap through exercises. What happened instead was clarifying: the room could name donor failures fluently and completely, and could not trace a single one back to its cause. That silence is what Version 2 is built on.
Read the field note →Every experienced fundraiser can name a failed receipt in sixty seconds. Ask them to trace it back to its cause — to walk the failure through every person, every system, every handoff — and the room goes quiet. This is not a personal failing. It is a structural one. And it has a literature.
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