As a capital campaign expert, I provide strategic guidance and advice regarding fundraising tactical implementation for any stage of an NPO’s campaign planning. During the initial planning stages of a fundraising campaign, I can assess your non-profit organization’s development leadership, nonprofit development strategic plans and budgets, constituents served by your not-for-profit, fundraising infrastructure and development operations, available development support resources, and the readiness of the fundraising program and advancement team to undertake a significant incremental fundraising effort.

What Is A Capital Campaign and What Might Fundraising Campaign Planning Entail?

A capital campaign is a concerted effort to raise a substantial amount of restricted and unrestricted funds for a specific nonprofit project or undertaking during a specified period of time. My pre-planning campaign activity often includes partnering with nonprofit clients to determine the goal and fundraising campaign components, drafting the case for philanthropic support and table of gifts needed to meet the goal, identifying Feasibility Study interviewees, and providing general counsel as your efforts ramp up. The following are various services my nonprofit consulting firm can offer related to your non-profit capital campaign to ensure it’s both ambitious and achievable:

    • Capital Campaign Readiness Assessments

    • Campaign Feasibility Studies

    • Fundraising Metrics & Fundraising Reporting

    • Pre-Campaign Fundraising Planning

    • Fundraising Strategic Plans & Timelines (Fundraising Project Plans)

    • Ongoing Capital Campaign Counsel, Development Leadership Coaching, and Nonprofit Executive Leadership Training

    • Capital Campaign Execution and Management (Capital Campaign Project Management)

The Benefits of a Fundraising Feasibility Study

Planning for a capital campaign can bring up a wide variety of key questions, such as:

    • Is our nonprofit organization ready to undertake a significant fundraising effort?

    • What are some of our NPO’s challenges, in terms of our needs versus development goals?

    • How can we make the case for philanthropic support, and our capital campaign timetable?

    • What is our community’s capacity to fulfill the campaign goal, and its inclination to support our fundraising goals?

    • What advancement resources will be required to achieve our capital campaign goal, and how should we organize our fundraising volunteers?

Capital campaign feasibility studies can help your organization answer the above questions. They provide the opportunity to test your development goals and plans with your not-for-profit’s loyal constituents. Such campaign feasibility assessments are externally-focused, and the interviews are often the first cultivation conversations with your NPO’s top donors, board members, and prospective donors. By arranging for and participating in those cultivation conversations, and with your input, my fundraising consulting firm can help you evaluate your community’s capacity and inclination to support your capital campaign effort. By the campaign feasibility study’s end, you will have a clearer sense of an ambitious but achievable fundraising campaign goal and time frame, as well as the most effective means of making your case for support.

Expert Connections For Your Next Capital Campaign

In addition to bringing my own extensive fundraising expertise, if needed, your nonprofit organization will have access to my connections to other fundraising experts in specialized fields such as prospect research and marketing and communications. I am proud to have an ever-growing list of consultants with whom I have partnered on various large-scale, fundraising campaign-related projects. These colleagues bring deep experience in both frontline fundraising and advancement consulting, and their perspectives inform and enrich our partnerships.