Assess Your Condition
We ask you lots of questions, take a look at your system and produce a findings document that you can review and revise. It allows your staff and ours to operate from a mutual and informed understanding of the challenges your organization faces. Among the areas that we may investigate:Prescribe and Treat
Once we know where we are, it is much easier to develop a plan of action to improve your fundraising system and identify who (you, us, someone else) might be involved in implementing the solution. Our treatment plan may include:
Long-Term Maintenance
It does not do any good to fix your brain if in six months it will be broken again. Our goal is ensure your system's long-term health by not only putting solid processes and procedures into place (see above) but also by offering a variety of services that help you manage your system.
Brain Surgeons We Are Not
So, you have a headache. You go to the doctor. He places you on the table and starts cutting your head open and adding and removing things.We don't think it makes sense either. But that is precisely what many consultants do - act now, ask later.
We are not brain surgeons, but we do believe your fundraising or CRM system can be the brains behind how you raise money from, and interact with, your constituents. Our approach is careful and methodical and is focused on maximizing your ability to tap into that brain. Our approach involves three basic stages:
