Services


FOR
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS


FOR
CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS


FOR BOARD /DEVELOPMENT
COMMITTEE CHAIRS


FOR OTHER SENIOR LEADERS
AND KEY PARTNERS

Fundraising leadership is about providing credible and relevant counsel, directly from a senior level fundraising professional, to Chief Executive Officers, Chief Development Officers and their teams at educational and non-profit associations seeking sustained success in fundraising.

CRITICAL STRATEGIES AND TACTICS:

  • Serving as a trusted partner/advisor, who listens patiently and with whom you can have critical or sensitive conversations

  • Applying a breadth of experience to see and re-frame perspectives from the strategic and visionary to the tactical in nature

  • Helping you identify roadblocks to success and offer effective solutions

  • Recommendations for effective staffing models that match your unique goals

  • Formulating and refining Campaign/Fundraising plans and follow through

  • Training and coaching for senior and mid-level development professionals and institutional partners to move from a transactional mindset to a relational approach in all aspects of development

  • Advising CDOs on Board/volunteer communication, training and development

  • A quick study who assimilates what you say and then asks the right questions to illuminate next steps and what matters most for successful fundraising outcomes

  • Facilitating conversations between fundraising leaders and organizational partners for highly functioning working relationships

  • Working with leaders and their teams to ensure internal preparedness of staff and volunteers during times of change in fundraising leadership

  • Onboarding of newly hired chief development officers

  • Serving as an interim chief development officer to ensure forward momentum of mission-critical priorities during fundraising leadership transitions and searches