Our work is high level and strategic,
focused on your overall fund development
plan. RETHINK partners with
specialists for more detailed analysis
and development of specific programs
such as annual campaigns, major gifts,
corporate philanthropy and sponsorship,
and planned giving.
Our clients receive maximum benefit when
we:
are invited to facilitate a strategic
planning exercise or
review that clearly links
institutional vision, related
development targets and
the fundraising case
conduct an overall audit or
assessment of the
state of the current fund
development and/or advancement
program (compared to accepted best
practice)
deliver FD
101 to the core team,
available executive staff, and any
volunteer boards or committees
involved - an opportunity to
understand the basic concepts and
immediately discuss applications to
your organization
facilitate a 'planning
‘advance’ (why even
think of a ‘retreat’) that brings
executive, fund development, and
communications staff together to
reflect on their successes, explore
their potentials, and address
weaknesses – the resulting high
level plan is an inspiration to the
team, a magnet attracting the
resource support required to meet
aggressive goals, and a touchstone
for ongoing management decisions to
follow
combine team
training with more detailed
planning for each key
aspect of an integrated fund
development program – bringing in
the best fund development expertise
available to identify next steps in
your evolution to a higher plateau
of fundraising success
remain
involved as ‘arms length’ strategic mentors
– joining the team periodically to
support key management decisions,
evaluate progress and/or update
plans.
