In The Green Offerings
Fractional Leadership
Fractional Leadership can help you bring in a seasoned fundraising and marketing strategist to lead your small to mid-sized fundraising and marketing team. As Fractional Leaders, we take a more hands-on approach to guiding your team. We will support and engage the CEO & Board as primary fundraisers, support hiring, craft a 3-year growth plan, create measurable goals, and set up systems to ensure success. We can even supervise your fundraising and marketing team, freeing up your time to lead the organization and connect with key stakeholders.
Coaching for Fundraisers
Your staff are the fertile soil that nourishes your mission. They deserve to be nourished as well. A seasoned fundraising coach can help your current fundraising staff grow. Think of us as fertilizer. We utilize customized 1:1 professional development plans, creating a leadership pipeline for your organization, while improving staff retention. The fundraisers we coach develop a holistic approach to fundraising that builds on their strengths, increases their confidence, and brings balance to their lives and work. We help you achieve sustainable results while avoiding burnout.
Fundraising Systems Design
We offer customizable consulting plans to support you in building your fundraising systems. After a thorough assessment of your ecosystem, we will help you prioritize initiatives. We will support you in hiring and onboarding people with the right skills and expertise. We will facilitate the development of a strategic revenue plan. We will guide the creation of systems and processes to ensure those plans come to fruition.
Data Systems Design & Analysis
Data can inform your strategy, if your data is clean, coded properly and entered consistently by everyone. We will support your organization in a thorough clean-up and recoding of your database, ensuring that we have a baseline, a easy-to-use dashboard and a meaningful reporting structure. This will allow you to measure what matters and to more easily provide reports to you key stakeholders. We will articulate clear and measurable outcomes as well as milestones so that you can track progress along the way.
Storytelling & Marketing
Storytelling is a powerful force for good. We are honored to support non-profits as they tell their stories and amplify the stories of those who seek their services. We are committed to Ethical Storytelling practices and will guide your team in sharing stories that influence and drive change, while upholding the dignity of everyone in our community. Story takes many forms: written word, public speaking, thought leadership, social media, data visualization, video, print and digital campaigns. We help you craft your message, choose the right channel, and cut through the noise.
Reimagining Events
Events can be an integral part of a thriving fundraising ecosystem. More often than not, we hear from non-profit leaders and fundraisers that their events are stale, obligatory and not as impactful as they could be. While we are not in the event planning business, we love to help leaders who are reimagining their events and gatherings. We bring the same strategic thinking to designing a gathering as we do to designing a fundraising system, balancing creativity with data and process.
Information Technology, Security & System Design
Your fundraising and marketing success can only grow from stable infrastructure. We provide IT, Software, Systems & Security assessments to ensure you have the right tech stack to thrive. We also conduct AI Assessments for capacity building. Helping you optimize the technology you have, leveraging free tools and choosing the right technology to empower your team. You are collecting sensitive donor information and you need to be able to protect that data. A data-beach can break trust you've built with donors and create chaos in your organization. We can help you maintain data integrity and protect your organization.
Grant Writing & Orgnizational Narratives
Does your organization have an identity crisis? Many leaders come to us with the same issue: even those closest to the organization can't tell the story. We'll help you craft a strong narrative that helps you clearly and concisely identify and differentiate your organization. A foundational narrative like this can be translated for various purposes including: grants, major gift asks, PR talking points, event speeches, website copy, fundraising campaigns, social media thought leadership and more.
We Design Thriving Ecosystems
If we want to feel differently about our work, we need to do things differently in our work. We often hear our nonprofit colleagues and funders talk about "ecosystems." Yet, when it comes down to it, most organizations still operate like lifeless machines. How many times have you heard leaders using machine or war metaphors to motivate teams? Who wants to be another cog in a wheel? Not us!
Our Regenerative Fundraising framework draws from the wisdom of nature. We design systems aligned to nature's cycles and seasons.
We believe that the best solutions sprout from the communities experiencing the need first-hand. We believe that our missions are like root systems; constantly deepening, expanding and communicating with other root systems. We believe that strong programs are the core of an organization- like the trunk of a tree- expanding outward to meet ever-evolving challenges. We believe that employees are the rich fertile soil that nourishes the life of the ecosystem. We believe that effective fundraising and marketing strategies- like the leaves, fruits and flowers of a tree- can only bloom from the branches of a sturdy infrastructure. And we believe that support of all kinds- our pollinators, cover crops, rain and sunlight- play critical but unique roles in the health of our ecosystems. We believe that we are in this together.
You won't hear any machine metaphors here.
Will you join us "In The Green?"