**What you asked:** "I run donor relations. Are we OK for winter?" — and then, "Given the coordinator's conclusion, what should donor relations do first?"

**What I found:** August food donations came in at 62 tonnes, down from 76 tonnes last August — about an 18% year-over-year drop. I verified this against the donor intake ledger.

**What the coordinator concluded:** Riverbend is **NOT OK for winter**, and the situation is more urgent than a seasonal concern — Warehouse's burn-down math shows only about **18 days of stock left** at current draw rates (41 tonnes ÷ 68.7 tonnes/month). This is now the operative deadline, not "sometime before winter." All four teams (Logistics, Donor Relations, Client Services, Warehouse) have live action items, and the coordinator will reconvene in mid-October once Northline's transport response, your donor diagnosis, and Client Services' seasonal demand data are in.

**What Donor Relations should do first (per the coordinator's directive):**

1. **Launch the donor appeal now** — don't wait on the segmentation analysis to start. The coordinator explicitly approved your parallel-track plan (diagnose + launch simultaneously) given the compressed 18-day timeline.
2. **Run the segmentation analysis in parallel** and share findings within 48 hours — this will sharpen targeting for the appeal once it's underway.
3. **Watch for Client Services' 3-year seasonal comparison** (being expedited) — you'll need that Nov–Feb projection to correctly size your fundraising/donation targets, since the current 68.7-tonne figure is just an August baseline, not a winter forecast.

So: get the appeal out the door immediately, work segmentation in the background, and be ready to recalibrate targets once the winter demand data lands.
