Nonprofit Fundraising and Campaign 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.

From comprehensive fundraising strategy and dedicated campaign planning to vital interim management during transitions to Board development, we partner with our clients to drive fundraising opportunities from concept and vision to dollars raised and goals met.

Our services include: 

  • Campaign Planning & Feasibility Studies
  • Campaign Audits
  • Campaign Implementation and Management
  • Fundraising Program Assessments
  • Major Gift and Annual Giving Program Design
  • Recruiting Executive-Level Fundraising Talent
  • Dedicated Interim Management Support and Counsel
  • Prospect Research & Data Analysis
  • President, CEO, Board, and Volunteer Coaching & Training
  • Board Strategy and Development
  • Fundraising Search Services

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How can we help you?

For over 45 years, Development Guild DDI 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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Internal Assessment

We evaluate the current fundraising program, identify gaps and opportunities, align strategic plans with funding and leadership priorities, assess staff capacity, surface early campaign priorities, and evaluate prospects.

External Discovery

We engage key stakeholders through strategic interviews to test the case for support, assess giving potential, and cultivate early interest. These conversations also help us identify and develop leadership as well as volunteer engagement.

Campaign Recommendations

We provide a clear path forward, including a go/no-go decision, recommended fundraising goal, gift table, and top prospects. We also outline the leadership structure, refined case for support, timeline, required investments, and how the effort will align with broader fundraising and organizational functions.

Campaign Strategy and Implementation

We deliver a clear blueprint for implementation, outlining key strategies, milestones, and progress indicators to guide the effort. This includes recommendations for board and campaign committee recruitment, defined leadership roles, and staffing needs to support successful execution.

Campaign Management

We provide detailed near-term plans and prospect strategies, along with clear metrics to evaluate progress. Through ongoing coaching and support for staff and volunteers, we monitor results and make real-time adjustments to ensure continued momentum.

Together, we will identify and address the conditions necessary to get to the optimal philanthropic position, to guide your investment in fundraising, and build the right model and practice for you.

You will work with a team whose strategic recommendations are influenced by best practice models of fundraising, relevant new ideas, skills in data analytics, contemporary knowledge of metrics, first-hand experience, and a fresh perspective. Our relationships with executive leaders, chief development officers, and Board members further inform our knowledge around what opportunities and tactics create the strongest, most sustainable philanthropic practice. We learn every day and we apply that learning to you.

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Development Guild DDI Logo

How can we help you?

For over 45 years, Development Guild DDI 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.

Interested in becoming a candidate?

Become a Candidate

Provide us with some context, and we will connect you with the right consultant.

The leadership and knowledge Development Guild has provided as our campaign consultant has been nothing short of excellent. Their team is curious, thoughtful, and accountable. Early in our work together, they gained the trust of our Campaign Committee who rely on them for expert advice and counsel. We are grateful for the structure they have helped us to create and the tools they have given us. We’re also grateful to them for their partnership.

— Pam Tatge, Director

In preparing for our $137M capital campaign, we were seeking a consultant who would help us question all our assumptions – and then keep us on track with the right solutions. Development Guild did just that. They were with us for every step of the campaign and shared in our celebration when we achieved our most ambitious goals. 

— George Maley, Chief Advancement Officer, Noble and Greenough School

FAQs

What makes a successful fundraising campaign?

Planning and outcome. By managing your expectations and building a feasible plan for success, you are priming yourself for a successful campaign. At Development Guild DDI, our expert fundraising services team will work with you to make sure you tick all the boxes to achieve your desired results.

What is the difference between campaign services vs. fundraising counsel?

At Development Guild DDI, we offer both campaign services and fundraising counsel.

  • Campaign services

Our campaign services aim to transform both your mission and your fundraising practice as a whole. From the campaign feasibility and planning stage to implementation and management, we’ll be there with you every step of the way. Our team takes the role of analyst, strategist and eventually, management as you build the capacity and momentum to run most aspects of the campaign on your own.

  • Fundraising counsel

Our fundraising counsel involves a wide range of strategic and tactical services. This includes the following:

  • Audit and assessment of your program or a single practice in your institution
  • Design and implementation of a major gift and annual giving program
  • Prospect research, data analysis and management
  • Volunteer coaching

In essence, we’ll provide the necessary training and recommendations to facilitate positive change in your organization and program as a whole. We’ll play the role of strategist, analyst, practitioner, coach, trainer, and if necessary, interim staff.

If you are seeking nonprofit fundraising consulting to take your development program to the next level, reach out to us today.

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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,
and teach you how to analyze
and review the results yourself