As the nation’s largest provider of foundation management services, we’re a trusted source for philanthropic expertise. We invest…
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For nonprofits planning a capital campaign, rebuilding development operations, or needing outside counsel on fundraising, board strength, or donor data.
Jga has served over 600 clients across all types of nonprofits and philanthropic missions. No matter the size of your…
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Our motto says it all: we help people who help people. We are the worldwide leader in fundraising, supporting nonprofits and…
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For over 75 years, ccs fundraising has empowered many of the world’s greatest organizations to advance some of the most important…
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Heller consulting empowers nonprofit, healthcare, and education organizations to achieve greater impact through strategic…
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Aly sterling philanthropy is a locally rooted, nationally recognized consulting firm helping charitable foundations and…
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Brian lacy and associates provides support to philanthropic organizations.
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Focus fundraising provides you with development guidance, planning and staffing to help you meet your revenue goals. We bring…
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Our mission ________________________________________ The Phoenix philanthropy group partners with organizations and individuals…
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Schultz & williams is a national consulting firm dedicated to helping nonprofits of all types and sizes achieve financial…
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Check out our Salesforce quick start suites for fundraising and engagement. A modular - economical way to quickly move into the…
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At twb fundraising, we believe that our experience speaks for itself. Every consultant has senior-level development experience…
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Westfall gold is an experience design agency and fundraising consultancy for organizations passionate about advancing good. We…
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These firms are hired to do the work around raising and managing money for a cause, not to raise it themselves. That means running feasibility studies before a capital campaign, writing the case for support, staffing a campaign office during a multi-year push, training board members on their fundraising role, cleaning and mining donor databases to find major gift prospects, and in some cases handling the back-office finance and compliance work that lets a foundation or nonprofit operate at all. When the engagement finishes, a client should have a campaign plan with real numbers behind it, a development team that knows what to do next, or a board that actually shows up to ask.
People go looking for this when a nonprofit is about to attempt something bigger than its current staff can manage — a capital campaign for a new building, an endowment push, a merger, or a leadership transition that puts major donor relationships at risk. Often the trigger is more mundane: the development director just left, the donor database hasn't been trusted in years, the board hasn't set a strategic direction, or last year's fundraising results didn't match the ambition of this year's budget. The organization has a mission it can articulate but no clear read on whether donors will actually fund the next step, or who is supposed to make that happen.
Approaches split roughly into advisory work and hands-on delivery. Some firms will study your donor base, write the plan, and hand it back to your staff to execute; others will embed a consultant as interim development director or campaign manager and run the work themselves for the duration. Some are generalists covering strategic planning, board development and fundraising together; others specialize tightly — prospect research, data and analytics, or back-office administration for foundations, and nothing else. Worth comparing: whether they have real experience in your subsector (higher education, healthcare, arts, social services all behave differently), whether they work with organizations your size or mostly with large institutions running nine-figure campaigns, how they price the work (flat project fee versus retainer — percentage-of-funds-raised fee arrangements are widely considered unethical in this field and worth asking about directly), and whether they staff on-site or run the engagement remotely.