Our team can help you thoughtfully position your organization to grow and sustain its resources over time. We work with development teams and leaders from a variety of sectors, guiding budding major gift programs and established fund development operations alike. Our consultants bring decades of front-line fundraising experience, innovative ideas, and solid systems to each engagement.

We can help you establish fundraising policies and plans, launch new revenue strategies and programs, identify and evaluate potential donors, develop cultivation and solicitation strategies and skills, and create stewardship plans that nurture and strengthen donor relationships.

We provide full service grant writing, final editing, or targeted help to build grant writing skills and capacity within your own team.

We write grant proposals that are technically correct and highly readable; provide capable project management and exacting quality assurance throughout; and make the grants process manageable, sane, and even enjoyable. We interpret the nuances of an RFP, research best practices, think through the program design with you, and help you construct budgets.

We can help you launch a campaign to fund your visionary effort and raise an ambitious amount of money within a specific period of time. In addition to passion and enthusiasm for your big plans, we also offer systems, prospective donor pipeline development, coaching, and a framework for developing a compelling case for your campaign.

We offer a 20-session training program for new Development Directors. The course teaches fundraising strategies in all areas of fund development and prepares clients to lead their organization’s contributed revenue program. Clients will learn new knowledge and skills, have access to a library of templates and resources, and receive ongoing coaching as they step into their new role.

Good communications can foster conversations, spark interest, and grow your community. We work with clients to convey the importance of their work and their projects. And we can put strategies in place to ensure stories are heard by kindred people. Our team has helped organizations create newsletters, publish pamphlets and brochures, reimagine their websites, plan fundraising appeals, devise campaigns, and more.

We help organizations develop a thoughtful approach to board recruitment and onboarding. We also design engaging board retreats and custom trainings and presentations to support board members in a variety of ways. We specialize in helping leadership volunteers engage in fundraising and cultivate a culture of philanthropy among their teams.

We are skilled at gathering data and synthesizing diverse perspectives to help you see the big picture and make strategic and informed decisions.