With our broad experience, we understand the challenges that virtually all fundraising programs have in common—as well as the specific dynamics of institutions in the voluntary sector. Like leaders at educational and healthcare institutions, you may need help determining a realistic campaign goal, engaging your board more effectively, or using analytics to drive fundraising results. But unlike them, you may lack alumni, grateful patients, or any ready pool of affiliated major-donor prospects.
GG+A has experts spanning all aspects of fundraising and constituent engagement, backed by best-in-class tools and resources.
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Our goal is to help our clients raise the funds they need to thrive through sustainable annual, major-gift, and planned-giving programs. Services include:
Using peer benchmarks, we are able to provide information on best practices and demonstrate their effectiveness. Learn more.
Provides the insights and data needed to make critical decisions about a proposed campaign’s structure, objectives, and implementation, offering an objective review of strengths and weaknesses relevant to the proposed campaign. Fundamental activities include briefing lead prospects and volunteers on the campaign’s goals, soliciting feedback on the case for support, and face-to-face conversations that explore the perceptions and gift potential of key constituents. Includes an analysis of internal resources available to support the effort and evidence-based recommendations for strategies, investments, and reallocations that will help support an ambitious and achievable campaign.
An assessment of the development operation that provides recommendations on the optimal organizational structure and deployment of staff and resources, as well as an evaluation of overall culture, environment, and level of readiness to support sustainable increases in fundraising. Typically focuses on management and organization, resources and budgets, prospect management, communications, and constituent engagement. May include benchmarking against peer institutions.
Evaluates the potential market for donation and provides a list of records selected according to a combination of geographic and demographic data, consumer behavior, and past charitable giving tendencies. Draws upon data gathered through prospect screening.
With more than 50 years of full-service philanthropic consulting experience and an unparalleled suite of analytical tools and resources, we can help you turn “We think” into “We know.” Learn more.
At GG+A, consultants with extensive development-leadership experience coach clients in the core competencies of major-gift fundraising: qualifying and planning, cultivating, asking, negotiating, and stewardship. Learn more.
We understand that communications tactics must flow from strategic goals and objectives. Learn more.
An efficient and cost-effective way to better understand key stakeholders’ developing interests and attitudes toward philanthropic giving. Uncover constituents’ interests, perceptions, opinions, motivations, and concerns. Understand facets of prospect behavior and engagement, knowledge invaluable to practitioners in development, communications, and donor stewardship. May be customized to target a particular program area, audience segment, donor profile, or fundraising initiative.
In recent years, GG+A has put its philanthropic-management expertise to work for charitable organizations with wide-ranging missions, challenges, and complexities. Here is a sampling: