Nonprofit Resources and Guides
Whether you’re seeking to strengthen your philanthropic program, recruit exceptional talent, or find a new role yourself, we’re here to help.
Knowledge. Innovation. Collaboration. Integrity. Accountability. Passion.
Development Guild is a national consulting firm that provides executive search, fundraising counsel, and BIG Question services to mission-driven, nonprofit organizations. Since 1978, we’ve provided a powerful combination of discipline and innovation to every client engagement, delivering solutions that are both strategic and deeply rooted in experience and data.
Fundraising Services
Facing complex fundraising challenges or planning a major campaign? Our nonprofit fundraising consulting services provide the expert guidance needed to strengthen your philanthropic efforts for long term sustainability, optimize strategy with an appropriate ROI, and build strong teams. With deep experience across diverse sectors, we’re dedicated to helping organizations like yours achieve extraordinary results.
BIG Question
Every nonprofit has “big-picture” goals—ending hunger, safeguarding the planet, transforming education—that feel too heavy for any single team. BIG Question lets you invite your whole community to pitch in. Each person contributes their bite-sized perspective, and our system weaves those voices into clear next steps you can act on. Whether ten people join or one million, you still receive a focused plan that gets at the root of the problem instead of treating the symptoms.
Executive Search Services
Recruiting the right talent is paramount for any nonprofit aiming to maximize its impact and achieve ambitious goals. At Development Guild, we specialize in nonprofit executive search, expertly identifying, attracting, and securing the mission-aligned professionals who will truly drive your organization forward.
2,800+
Client Engagements
99%
Client Satisfaction Rate
1978
Serving Nonprofits Since 1978
We're Big On Values
They drive the way we connect with our clients and each other, and they are the reason for our success.
By working across the breadth of the philanthropic sphere, we gather trends and insights to expand and refresh our expertise and knowledge – every day and with every client engagement. We seek forward-driving solutions to bring to our clients and our firm.
Diverse perspectives improve decision-making, provoke learning, and expand possibilities. We work collaboratively with our clients and each other to break new ground and deliver meaningful results.
We are serious about the work that we do. We employ refined business practices and the highest ethical standards in every action that we take. This is a commitment to one another, and to our clients, candidates, and professional networks.
As a woman-led company and strong proponents of DEI, Development Guild DDI recognizes that diverse voices, perspectives, and experiences are required for the greatest impact. We are committed to supporting and strengthening DEI industry-wide – through our work as nonprofit consultants, and internally as a firm.
We have the opportunity to work with remarkable clients. Their drive, their vision, and their unwavering commitment in taking on big challenges keeps us motivated to be the partner that allows them to stay ahead of the curve.
Our people are our greatest asset. Their experience, talent, and dedication set us apart and provide our clients with unparalleled services. We support and invest in each other.
We're Big On Values
They drive the way we connect with our clients and each other, and they are the reason for our success.
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Excellence Through Knowledge
By working across the breadth of the philanthropic sphere, we gather trends and insights to expand and refresh our expertise and knowledge – every day and with every client engagement. We seek forward-driving solutions to bring to our clients and our firm.
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Innovation
Diverse perspectives improve decision-making, provoke learning, and expand possibilities. We work collaboratively with our clients and each other to break new ground and deliver meaningful results.
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Integrity and Accountability
We are serious about the work that we do. We employ refined business practices and the highest ethical standards in every action that we take. This is a commitment to one another, and to our clients, candidates, and professional networks.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
As a woman-led company and strong proponents of DEI, Development Guild DDI recognizes that diverse voices, perspectives, and experiences are required for the greatest impact. We are committed to supporting and strengthening DEI industry-wide – through our work as nonprofit consultants, and internally as a firm.
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Inspired By Our Clients
We have the opportunity to work with remarkable clients. Their drive, their vision, and their unwavering commitment in taking on big challenges keeps us motivated to be the partner that allows them to stay ahead of the curve.
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Passion for our People
Our people are our greatest asset. Their experience, talent, and dedication set us apart and provide our clients with unparalleled services. We support and invest in each other.
I knew that Development Guild was known for more than their fundraising searches, but I didn't know if they could deliver on such a unique role. The quality and diversity of the candidates Development Guild presented were excellent and our team and board members felt very well supported. They delivered just the candidate we hoped to find. They found us a unicorn
How can we help you?
Since 1978, Development Guild has partnered with nonprofit organizations nationwide to achieve their most ambitious goals. Whether you need new talent, fundraising or campaign solutions, or strategic counsel, we can help.
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Ask your own
BIG Question
HOW IT WORKS:
1 - We’ll meet with you and plan
how and when to ask your BIG
Question.
2 - We’ll bring your community
together! We start with a live
event.
3 - We’ll review the results with
you and discover key takeaways,
teach you how to analyze, and
how review the results yourself.