We're ready to raise more.
From a first annual plan to a capital campaign, we build the program and the discipline behind it.
What it looks like from the inside
One event or one funder is carrying more of the budget than anyone is comfortable admitting. Thank-yous go out when someone gets to them. Your best donors don't have a name next to them on any list, which means they belong to everyone and therefore to no one. The development director you hired eighteen months ago is gone, and the relationships left with them. And every board meeting ends the same way: we need to raise more money, followed by silence.
What it's costing you
More than the gap in this year's budget. It's the donors who gave once and never heard from you again. The grants you were qualified for and didn't apply for because nobody had a calendar. The planned gift that went to another organization because you never asked. Fundraising problems compound quietly, and by the time they show up in the numbers, you're already a year behind.
What fixed looks like
A written plan with a target by source, so you know where the money is supposed to come from before the year starts. A retention rate you can state as a number and move on purpose. A major gifts portfolio that someone actually works, with the next touch scheduled. Grants on a calendar. A board that asks. None of this is complicated. It's just work that has to be done in order, by someone who has done it before.
How we work on it
We've raised over $100 million inside nonprofits, not from the outside looking in. Get a plan: a development audit and an annual fundraising plan you can run yourself. Get it built: we design the major gifts program, the recurring giving program, the grant calendar, and hand it over working. Get a team: a fractional Chief Development Officer who owns the number with you, quarter by quarter, until you're ready to hire one.
- Fractional Chief Development Officer
- Development audit and annual fundraising plan
- Major gifts program design and portfolio management
- Planned giving, DAF, stock, and crypto gift programs, with gift acceptance policy
- Corporate partnerships, sponsorships, workplace giving, and matching gifts
- Foundation research, grant calendar, and grant writing
- Grant reporting and funder relations
- Peer-to-peer and digital fundraising campaigns
- Recurring giving and membership programs
- Event strategy and ROI review
- Donor communications: appeals, thank-yous, impact updates, direct mail
- Donor retention, stewardship, and analytics benchmarking
- Capital and endowment campaigns, including feasibility studies
- Case for support and campaign narrative